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

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 o...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 196; no. 1; pp. 11 - 31
Autor principal:	Placek, Tomasz
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Jan2019
Materias:	Free will & determinism General relativity (Physics) Initial value problems Aristotle, 384-322 B.C. Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827
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