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Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics. [PDF]

Synthese, 2021
Most physics theories are deterministic, with the notable exception of quantum mechanics which, however, comes plagued by the so-called measurement problem.
Gisin N.
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Quantum Indeterminism, Free Will, and Self-Causation

Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2023
A view that emancipates free will by means of quantum indeterminism is frequently rejected based on arguments pointing out its incompatibility with what we know about quantum physics.
M. Masi
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Prior’s turn from determinism to indeterminism

Logic and philosophy of time, 2023
Indeterminism assumes a central place in Arthur Norman Prior’s invention and development of modern tense logic. Before this indeterminism, Prior was for a number of years a devout determinist.
Per Hasle, Jakobsen David
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“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency

Synthese, 2022
Towards the end of her famous 1971 paper “Causality and Determination”, Elizabeth Anscombe discusses the controversial idea that “ ‘physical haphazard’ could be the only physical correlate of human freedom of action”.
Thomas Müller
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The Nothing from Infinity paradox versus Plenitudinous Indeterminism

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022
The Nothing from Infinity paradox arises when the combination of two infinitudes of point particles meet in a supertask and disappear. Corral-Villate claims that my arguments for disappearance fail and concedes that this failure also produces an extreme ...
N. Shackel
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An introduction to real possibilities, indeterminism, and free will: three contingencies of the debate. [PDF]

Synthese, 2019
The papers collected in this Special Issue document the development of a novel, positive understanding of indeterminismgrounded in real possibilities, and the interrelation of that development with the free will debate.
Müller T, Rumberg A, Wagner V.
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
The usual compatibility debates concerning moral responsibility, determinism and indeterminism tend to be all-or-nothing ("Determinism rules out responsibility!", "Undetermined actions are too lucky to be free!"). The suggestion in this paper is that the
Kearns Stephen
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Process Complexity

Complexity, Governance & Networks, 2022
We develop the ontology of “process complexity” and describe how the dynamics of “becoming” can be framed as the emerging, stabilising, and ultimate dissolving of “patterns of relationships.” By extending traditional complexity thinking through ...
Jean Boulton
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A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism. [PDF]

Dialectica (Bern), 2018
The aim of this paper is to establish that free agency, which is a capacity of many animals including human beings, is compatible with indeterminism: an indeterministic world allows for the existence of free agency.
Müller T, Briegel HJ.
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The Hole Argument, Manifold Substantivalism, and Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The hole argument has become one of the main issues in the philosophy of space-time after the article by Earman and Norton (1987), according to which a certain version of substantivalism (manifold substantivalism) cannot be defended because it brings ...
Saeed Masoumi
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