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Developments in Quantum Probability and the Copenhagen Approach
Entropy, 2018 In the Copenhagen approach to quantum mechanics as characterized by Heisenberg, probabilities relate to the statistics of measurement outcomes on ensembles of systems and to individual measurement events via the actualization of quantum potentiality ...
Gregg Jaeger
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A remark on the role of indeterminism and non-locality in the violation of Bell's inequality
, 2013 Some years ago Aerts et al. presented a macroscopic model in which the amount of non-locality and indeterminism could be continuously varied, and used it to show that by increasing non-locality one increases, as expected, the degree of violation of Bell ...
de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli
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The actual future is open [PDF]
, 2018 Open futurism is the indeterministic position according to which the future is 'open,' i.e., there is now no fact of the matter as to what future contingent events will actually obtain.
Gallina, Francesco +1 more
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Quantum Indeterminacy, Freedom, and Responsibility [PDF]
Ideas y Valores, 2008 In the contemporary debate between determinism and indeterminism, quantum mechanics are used by libertarianists, both as a resource to escape the determinism imposed by classical physics, and as a tool to search for a ground to the possibility of free ...
Carlos Patarroyo
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Contingence, déterminisme et « just-so stories »
Tracés, 2013 A number of contrasting uses of contingency are discussed, with an emphasis on the relation of contingency with indeterminism and determinism. We find associations with indeterminism problematic.
Clint Ballinger
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The man in the high garden: An epicurean virtual history [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualFollowing the lead of heterogeneous and invariably brilliant thinkers as Thucydides, Arnold J. Toynbee, Winston Churchill, Carl Sagan, Philip K. Dick, and Niall Ferguson, I consider a virtual history - or an alternative Everettian branch of the universal
Ćirković Milan
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Did the Universe Have a Chance? [PDF]
, 2018 In a world awash in statistical patterns, should we conclude that the universe’s evolution or genesis is somehow subject to chance? I draw attention to alternatives that must be acknowledged if we are to have an adequate assessment of what chance the ...
McCoy, C. D.
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Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails an Intrinsic Time Arrow. a Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy [PDF]
, 1999 Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction therefore arises between two statements of Hawking.
't Hooft +21 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris +2 more
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The Divine Action Project, 1988–2003 [PDF]
, 2004 This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley.
Wildman, Wesley J.
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