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Freedom and Necessity in The Winter’s Tale

2014

From the first expository scene, The Winter’s Tale exhibits a concern with necessity, either through the use of the word itself, its derivatives (necessities, necessary), and their synonyms (needful, required) or through the notion of what “must” happen, what “cannot but” happen. The recurrence of such terms conveys a sense that this is a world where no one is free, and every action is dictated by force of circumstance. This is reinforced by the widespread use of the traditional imagery of fate. Yet the characters of the play are reluctant to submit to necessity. Some even fantasize states of absolute freedom, including freedom from the laws of nature. The play itself, notwithstanding the o…

La decorrenza dei termini per la revocatoria nella liquidazione coatta amministrativa

1999

Freedom and responsibility in Avicenna

2022

It is still a matter of some debate whether Avicenna grounds moral responsibility in a robust notion of free will. In this contribution, I will first delve into Avicenna’s theory of voluntary agency, arguing that he holds voluntary agency to be responsive to reasons but also thoroughly determined by the agent’s beliefs concerning the relevant goals, instruments, and qualifying circumstances. Since these beliefs in turn are caused, it seems that there is little room for a causally undetermined will in Avicenna’s theory. I will conclude by considering the question of whether Avicenna is some kind of compatibilist concerning the relation between determinism and responsibility. peerReviewed

Inductive inference of recursive functions: complexity bounds

1991

This survey includes principal results on complexity of inductive inference for recursively enumerable classes of total recursive functions. Inductive inference is a process to find an algorithm from sample computations. In the case when the given class of functions is recursively enumerable it is easy to define a natural complexity measure for the inductive inference, namely, the worst-case mindchange number for the first n functions in the given class. Surely, the complexity depends not only on the class, but also on the numbering, i.e. which function is the first, which one is the second, etc. It turns out that, if the result of inference is Goedel number, then complexity of inference ma…

Comparing various concepts of function prediction. Part 2.

1975

Prediction: f(m+1) is guessed from given f(0), ..., f(m). Program synthesis: a program computing f is guessed from given f(0), ..., f(m). The hypotheses are required to be correct for all sufficiently large m, or with some positive frequency. These approaches yield a hierarchy of function prediction and program synthesis concepts. The comparison problem of the concepts is solved.

Comparing various types of limiting synthesis and prediction of functions

1974

Nauka przeciw wolnej woli?

2016

Un disegno per la facciata del santuario della Madonna della Consolazione a Termini Imerese

2009

Absence of mutations in the WT1 gene in patients with XY gonadal dysgenesis

1995

The WT1 gene is normally expressed during gonadal development and specific mutations in heterozygous form cause Drash syndrome, characterized by male pseudohermaphroditism and gonadal dysgenesis, renal failure and a predisposition for Wilms' tumour. These observations prompted us to test whether WT1 mutations are involved in isolated gonadal dysgenesis, being the most severe form of disturbance in gonadal differentiation. We studied 27 cases of 46,XY females with gonadal dysgenesis who had previously been screened for and found not to carry SRY gene mutations. We performed mutational screening of the WT1 gene with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. In one of these patients, a heterozy…

Kirjallisuus ja kausaaliset operaattorit : mitä kirjallisuus opettaa moraalista?

2015

Tutkielman tavoitteena on puhua kausaalisen determinismin nojalla kirjallisuuden tiedollisen merkityksen puolesta filosofisia ajatuskokeita vastaan. Pyrkimyksenä on osoittaa, että kirjallisuus voi kertomuksen mittaan pystyttää sellaisen kausaalisten suhteiden välisten ketjun, että niiden välisten merkitysten ymmärtämisen myötä lukija tulee omaksuneeksi tunnekokemukseen perustuvia tietoja ja uskomuksia. Filosofiset ajatuskokeet eivät kykene tuottamaan tällaista kokemukseen perustuvaa vaikutusvoimaa. Argumenttini tämän kokemustiedon puolesta nojaa kausaalisen determinismin jyrkkään muotoon, jonka mukaan kokemukset ohittavat tietoisuuden ja vapaan tahdon portinvartijat, ja ne tuntuvat affektei…