Darby, George and Pickup, Martin (2019) Modelling Deep Indeterminacy. [Preprint]

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This paper constructs a model of metaphysical indeterminacy that can accommodate a kind of ‘deep’ worldly indeterminacy that arguably arises in quantum mechanics via the Kochen-Specker theorem, and that is incompatible with prominent theories of metaphysical indeterminacy such as that in Barnes and Williams (2011). We construct a variant of Barnes and Williams's theory that avoids this problem. Our version builds on situation semantics and uses incomplete, local situations rather than possible worlds to build a model. We evaluate the resulting theory and contrast it with similar alternatives, concluding that our model successfully captures deep indeterminacy.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Darby, George Pickup, Martin 0000-0001-6328-7473
Additional Information:	Forthcoming at Synthese
Keywords:	Metaphysical indeterminacy; deep indeterminacy; Kochen-Specker; situation semantics; indeterminacy; metaphysics of quantum mechanics
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Dr Martin Pickup
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2019 03:39
Last Modified:	23 Feb 2019 03:39
Item ID:	15760
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15760

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