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Spacetime singularities and indeterminism

Synthese
We argue for the claim that spacetime singularities in general relativity (GR) signal indeterminism, broadly construed. We first develop a schema for diagnosing a type of indeterminism for physical theories, which we denote by Indeterminism.
Feraz Azhar, M. H. Namjoo
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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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Parallel convergences: Cassirer and Vienna indeterminism

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Stöltzner coined the expression ‘Vienna indeterminism’ to describe a philosophical tradition centered on the Viennese physicist Exner, serving as the ‘historical link’ between Mach and Boltzmann, on the one hand, and von Mises and Frank, on the other ...
Marco Giovanelli
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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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Metaphysical Rationalism Requires Grounding Indeterminism

Journal of the American Philosophical Association
Metaphysical rationalism is the view that, necessarily, every fact that stands in need of a metaphysical (grounding) explanation has one. Varieties of metaphysical rationalism include classical theism, Spinozism, spacetime priority monism, and ...
Kenneth L. Pearce
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The man in the high garden: An epicurean virtual history [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
Following 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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The Concept of Revolution in the Sciences: Michael Polanyi's Differences With Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions

Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was a blockbuster publication that problematized notions about the origins and nature of scientific revolutions. What became Kuhn's famous rubrics of “normal science” and “paradigms” were similar to concepts of “tacit knowledge” and scientific “frameworks” or “dogmas” in Michael ...
Mary Jo Nye
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Deterministic Theories

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 134-152, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson, J. B. Manchak, James Owen Weatherall   +2 more
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Superluminal transformations and indeterminism

New Journal of Physics
Quantum theory is widely regarded as fundamentally indeterministic, yet classical frameworks can also exhibit indeterminism once infinite information is abandoned.
Amrapali Sen, Flavio Del Santo
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