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Moral Responsibility and Time Travel in an Indeterministic World

Philosophies
I have argued against the Principle of Alternative Possibilities using a time travel-based counterexample. Kelly McCormick has responded to my counterexample by arguing that the time travel scenario must be a scenario in which a time traveler’s actions ...
Joshua Spencer
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Probability Theory as a Physical Theory Points to Superdeterminism

Entropy, 2019
Probability theory as a physical theory is, in a sense, the most general physics theory available, more encompassing than relativity theory and quantum mechanics, which comply with probability theory.
Louis Vervoort
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Comments on Indeterminism and Undecidability

, 2021
In a recent paper \cite{Landsman1}, it has been claimed that the outcomes of a quantum coin toss which is idealized as an infinite binary sequence is {\it 1-random}. We also defend the correctness of this claim and assert that the outcomes of quantum measurements can be considered as an infinite {\it 1-random} or {\it n-random} sequence.
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On the idea that all future tensed contingents are false

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 209-216, June 2025.
Anthony Bigg, Kristie Miller
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Indeterminism and persistence [PDF]

, 2011
This paper aims at bringing together two debates in metaphysics that so far have been kept separate: the debate about determinism vs. indeterminism as de re modality on the one hand, and the debate about persistence on the other hand.
Thomas Müller, Müller, Thomas
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Probability, Indeterminism and Biological Processes [PDF]

, 2011
Probability and indeterminism have always been core philosophical themes. This paper aims to contribute to understanding probability and indeterminism in biology. To provide the background for the paper, it will first be argued that an omniscient being
Werndl, Charlotte, Charlotte Werndl
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Circular causality and indeterminism in machines for design

Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2014
Presenting a hard-to-predict typography-varying system predicated on Nazi-era cryptography, the Enigma cipher machine, this paper illustrates conditions under which unrepeatable phenomena can arise, even from straight-forward mechanisms.
Thomas Fischer
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Constitutionalism, Cheap Indeterminism and the Grounding Problem

, 2017
Thomas Sattig has argued recently that constitutionalism renders determinism about the actual world false, just in virtue of ordinary facts about ordinary middle-sized material objects.
Marta Campdelacreu
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Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action

, 2014
This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our free human agency and its place in our indeterministic world.
Müller, Thomas
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Is Time Travel Too Strange to Be Possible? - Determinism and Indeterminism on Closed Timelike Curves [PDF]

, 2017
Notoriously, the Einstein equations of general relativity have solutions in which closed timelike curves (CTCs) occur. On these curves time loops back onto itself, which has exotic consequences: for example, traveling back into one's own past becomes ...
Mulder, Ruward A., Dieks, Dennis
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