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Laplace's demon tries on Aristotle's cloak: on two approaches to determinism

Placek, Tomasz (2016) Laplace's demon tries on Aristotle's cloak: on two approaches to determinism. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The paper describes two approaches to determinism: one focuses on the features of global objects, such as possible worlds or models of a theory, whereas the other's concern is the possible behavior of individual objects. It then gives an outline of an individuals-based analysis of the determinism of theories. Finally, a general relativistic spacetime with non-isometric extensions is described and used to illustrate a conflict between the two approaches: this spacetime is indeterministic by the first approach but deterministic by the second approach.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Placek, Tomasztomasz.placek@uj.edu.pl
Keywords: determinism and indeterminism; general relativity; initial value problem
Subjects: General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User: Tomasz Placek
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2016 18:53
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2016 18:53
Item ID: 12066
Subjects: General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date: 30 April 2016
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12066

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