Darby, George and Pickup, Martin (2019) Modelling Deep Indeterminacy. [Preprint]
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Abstract
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 | |||||||||
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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 |
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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 |
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Date: | 2019 | |||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15760 |
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