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Laplace's demon tries on Aristotle's cloak

on two approaches to determinism

Tomasz Placek

pp. 11-30

Résumé

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 behaviour 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.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2019) Synthese 196 (1).

Pages: 11-30

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1158-1

Citation complète:

Placek Tomasz, 2019, Laplace's demon tries on Aristotle's cloak: on two approaches to determinism. Synthese 196 (1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1158-1.