The aims of this chapter are to review some aspects of determinism that are familiar to physicists but are little discussed in the philosophical literature and to show how these aspects connect determinism to issues about symmetries in physics, the structure and ontological status of spacetime, predictability, and computability. It will emerge that in some respects determinism is a robust doctr...

According to the Consequence Argument, the truth of determinism plus other plausible principles would yield the conclusion that we have no free will. In this paper I will argue that the conception of determinism typically employed in the various versions of the Consequence Argument is not plausible. In particular, I will argue that, taken most straightforwardly, determinism as defined in the Co...

The European Citizens’ Initiative is designed to make European democracy more direct by allowing citizens to propose (including electronically) legal acts to the Commission. The present paper offers a conceptual model for the analysis of this eParticipation case, and other similar e-petitioning practices, which is not biased by political ambition or technological determinism. The operational fr...

This paper compares groups of firms with different technological capabilities in Bangkok (Thailand), Penang (Malaysia) and Singapore in respect to their innovation activity, cooperation behaviour and assessment of the business environment. While conspicuous differences between the regions are found, the comparison of the different technological capabilitygroups is less conclusive. However, some...