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The dome: An unexpectedly simple failure of determinism [PDF]
, 2008 Newton's equations of motion tell us that a mass at rest at the apex of a dome with the shape specified here can spontaneously move. It has been suggested that this indeterminism should be discounted since it draws on an incomplete rendering of Newtonian
Norton, JD
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‘Animals run about the world in all sorts of paths’: varieties of indeterminism
Synthese, 2021 In her seminal essay ‘Causality and Determination’, Elizabeth Anscombe very decidedly announced that “physical indeterminism” is “indispensable if we are to make anything of the claim to freedom”. But it is clear from that same essay that she extends the
Jesse M. Mulder
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Determinism and Divine Agency According to Allamah Tabatabaei [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 In this article, I present and explain ten different possible meanings of a chance event – some ontological, some epistemic – and provide examples whenever possible.
Alexander Maar
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, 2021 The main thesis of this paper is that Pap’s The Functional A Priori in Physical Theory and Cassirer’s Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics may be conceived as two kindred accounts of a late Neo-Kantian philosophy of science. They elucidate and
T. Mormann
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What Does Indeterminism Offer to Agency?
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Libertarian views of freedom claim that, although determinism would rule out our freedom, we are nevertheless free on some occasions. An odd implication of such views (to put it mildly) seems to be that indeterminism somehow enhances or contributes to ...
Andrew Law
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Popper, Rationality and the Possibility of Social Science
Theoria, 2013 Social science employs teleological explanations which depend upon the rationality principle, according to which people exhibit instrumental rationality.
Danny Frederick
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Comment on ‘Quantum principle of relativity’
New Journal of Physics, 2023 Dragan and Ekert ( New J. Phys. 22 033038) have recently claimed that fundamental properties of quantum physics (e.g. fundamental indeterminism and the principle of superposition) can be derived solely from relativistic considerations, if one takes as ...
Flavio Del Santo, Sebastian Horvat
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Theoria, 2013 Quantum indeterminism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy. The Copenhagen interpretation also takes quantum theory as evidence for anti-realism.
Stephen R Palmquist
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Bell's theorem and the issue of determinism and indeterminism [PDF]
, 2015 The paper considers the claim that quantum theories with a deterministic dynamics of objects in ordinary space-time, such as Bohmian mechanics, contradict the assumption that the measurement settings can be freely chosen in the EPR experiment.
Esfeld, Michael
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