Spacetime singularities and indeterminism.
We argue for the claim that spacetime singularities in general relativity (GR) signal indeterminism, broadly construed. We first develop a schema for diagnosing a type of indeterminism for physical theories, which we denote by Indeterminism. Such indeterminism involves a broader notion of a lack of...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 206; no. 2; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Aug2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=187221235&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 187221235 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2025 vid: 206 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 187221235 10.1007/s11229-025-05178-1 ppf: 1 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.8MB tig: atl: Spacetime singularities and indeterminism. aug: au: Azhar, Feraz Namjoo, Mohammad Hossein affil: https://ror.org/00mkhxb43 Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA https://ror.org/04xreqs31 School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran sug: keyword: Black holes Determinism General relativity Spacetime singularities ab: We argue for the claim that spacetime singularities in general relativity (GR) signal indeterminism, broadly construed. We first develop a schema for diagnosing a type of indeterminism for physical theories, which we denote by Indeterminism. Such indeterminism involves a broader notion of a lack of a determination than the usual Laplacian one. More precisely, Indeterminism arises in a model of a physical theory whenever future (or past) states of the model are (i) not unique, (ii) not specified, or (iii) ‘incoherent’—that is, they fail to satisfy desiderata that the theory should reasonably satisfy. We then apply our schema to salient features of spacetime singularities in GR. We establish that, indeed, singularities signal a type of indeterminism that cannot comprehensively be understood as a variety of Laplacian indeterminism: namely, spacetime singularities in GR signal Indeterminism. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2025. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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