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Alexander of Aphrodisias argues in his de fato against the Stoic theory of all embracing causal determinism. This would imply that it would never be up to us to act this way and also to act otherwise. Determinism and being able to act otherwise,...

Gerhard Ernst formulates the following trilemma: (1) We love persons because of their lovable qualities. (2) Lovable qualities can have multiple instantiations.(3) Loved persons are irreplaceable. All three of these claims are prima facie...

In this article a philosophical theory of causation is developed which is inde terministic in that it reconciles the thesis that every event has a cause with the thesis that there are contingent events. Its basic idea is the following: A con tingent...