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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| Keywords: | determinism and indeterminism; general relativity; initial value problem | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| 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 |
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| Date: | 30 April 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12066 |
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