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Pertti Ruismäki
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  • Helsinki, Finland
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Born in 1964. MA in industrial design 1991. No formal education in philosophy.

Main areas of interest in philosophy:

  • Determinism (or the lack of it)
  • Free will
  • Randomness
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Why do scientific laws persist?
May 1
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Can randomness create patterns?
Aug 31, 2023
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'Free will' as a 'confused concept': Is Ned Block correct?
Jan 1
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Can we know that something exists even if we can't explain or define it?
Mar 28
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How can we prove that the supernatural or paranormal doesn't exist?
Mar 3, 2023
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Could Laplace's Demon be the universe itself?
Nov 6, 2023
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Do non physical causes exist?
Aug 22, 2023
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Why is the question "Is there free will?", and not, “What is free will?"
Mar 24
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Are agent explanations better than non agent explanations?
Apr 11
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Why do most philosophers believe in a deterministic formulation of quantum mechanics?
Apr 12
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Local decrease of entropy, does it require life?