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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Indeterminism"”.
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Reasons, Agency, and Responsibility: A Defence of Soft Compatibilism
… will is incompatible with causal determinism and indeterminism because the human will is subject to antecedent conditions. If causal determinism is true, then these antecedent conditions are sufficient for the will to be a certain way. If indeterminism is true, then these antecedent conditions are …
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Introducing a Kantian interpretation of quantum physics : in accordance with Kant's philosophy of science in the Critique of the power of judgment, reinterpreted and reworked with special attention to the supersensible realm
In this thesis I confront the problem of indeterminism in quantum physics. The first pioneers accepted indeterminism as part of their Copenhagen interpretation and it was incorporated in Von Neumann's formulation (as the "projection postulate"). But how deep does this indeterminism go? With the …
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Complementarity and the practice of psychotherapy : an alternative to eclecticism
… holds that in order to counteract the problem of indeterminism there is a need for clarity of theoretical descriptions. For psychotherapy practice this implies, in contradistinction to eclecticism, the separate rather than mixed use of diverse approaches. The practical options suggested by …
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Eventuality-based interval semantics and Free Logic: what if there, like, is no future, man?
… and logicians committed to any variety of indeterminism on which facts about the future are not yet fixed. One possible answer to the problem involves presupposition—namely, that propositions lack truth-value when other propositions that they presuppose are false. This paper explores the …
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Teacher identity, activism, and empowerment: Entanglements with climate in Aotearoa, New Zealand
… philosophy and a critique of the ontological indeterminism in quantum mechanics-inspired agential realism.
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The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics: An assessment of its fitness for use in Christian theology and apologetics
… who consciously sought to ensconce indeterminism as an ontological rather than merely epistemological element of quantum theory. Second, there are several scientific and science-historical counter-indicators to the Copenhagen view. Third, several entailments of the CI run counter to …
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Value Indefiniteness, Randomness and Unpredictability in Quantum Foundations
… Quantum foundations, quantum randomness, quantum indeterminism, unpredictability, value indefiniteness, quantum measurement
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Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition
… and refine it. Also capable of incorporating indeterminism, they can act as powerful devices in discovering unforeseen musical implications and results. Algorithms alone were found to be insufficient to simulate human creative thought because aspects such as (but not limited to) imagination, …
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Mechanism and rationality : the case for explanatory incompatibilism
… found to involve· three main elements: physical indeterminism, intentional intelligibility, and then something like the concept of agent-causation. In the course of this account there is a brief discussion of the problem of other minds and an argument against the desire-belief model of action and …
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Philosophical aspects of chaos: definitions in mathematics, unpredictability, and the observational equivalence of deterministic and indeterministic descriptions
This dissertation is about some of the most important philosophical aspects of chaos research, a famous recent mathematical area of research about deterministic yet unpredictable and irregular, or even random behaviour. It consists of three parts. First, as a basis for the dissertation, I examine …