Between chance and choice : interdisciplinary perspectives on determinism

Between chance and choice : interdisciplinary perspectives on determinism / edited by Harald Atmanspacher and Robert Bishop.

Are choice and free will possible in a world governed by deterministic fundamental equations? What sense would determinism make if many events and processes in the world seemed to be governed by chance? These and many other questions emphasize the fact that chance and choice are two leading actors o...

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Other Authors: Atmanspacher, Harald (Editor), Bishop, Robert (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville, Virginia : Imprint Academic, 2002.
Subjects:
Free will and determinism.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Free will and determinism
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Body matter; Preface; Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions; 1 Introduction; 2 Deterministic Descriptions in Physics; 2.1 Laplacean Determinism; 3 Towards an Indeterministic Description in Physics; 3.1 Value Determinateness; 3.2 Differential Dynamics; 3.3 Unique Evolution; 3.4 Taking Stock; 4 Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions in Psychology; 4.1 Psychological Models of Determinism; 4.2 Deterministic Descriptions in Psychology; 4.3 Indeterministic Descriptions in Psychology; 4.4 Taking Stock; 5 Discussion.
  • Appendix: A Comment on Differential DynamicsAcknowledgments; References; Perspectives on Scientific Determinism; 1 Introduction; 2 Ernst Cassirer; 3 A Mathematical Structure for Scientific Determinism; 4 Emil du Bois-Reymond's Perspective on Nature; 5 A Perspective on du Bois-Reymond's Position; References; Determinism Is Ontic, Determinability Is Epistemic; 1 Introduction; 2 Ontic and Epistemic States of Classical Systems; 2.1 Stability; 2.2 Dynamical Entropy; 2.3 Information Flow; 3 Determinism, Causation, and Predictability; 3.1 Laplace, Maxwell, Poincaré
  • 3.2 Ontic Determinism and Epistemic Chaos4 Determinism, Randomness, and Stochasticity; 5 Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Determinism, Internalism and Objectivity; 1 Chaos Theory; 2 The Problem of Determinism; 3 The Interpretation of Probability; 4 Internalist Realism; 5 Perspectives; 6 Some Remaining Problems; References; Hidden Determinism, Probability, and Time's Arrow; 1 Determinism Does Not Deal with Predictions; 2 Terminology and Basic Concepts; 3 Breaking the Time-Reversal Symmetry; 4 Arrow of Time; 5 Indeterminism; 6 Statistical Causality; 7 Why Can There Be Laws of Chance?
  • 8 Are There Statistically Irreproducible Events?9 Hadamard's Principle of Scientific Determinism; 10 Experimental Science Requires Freedom of Action; 11 Quantum Randomness; 12 Quantum Mechanics Cannot Explain Free Will; 13 Why Does Time's Arrow Always Point in the Same Direction?; 14 Hadamard Determinism Cannot Be Globally Valid; Acknowledgements; References; Time-Space Dilations and Stochastic-Deterministic Dynamics; 1 Introduction; 2 Dilations of Stochatic Descriptions to Deterministic Dynamics; 3 Mathematical Dilation Theories; 4 Physical Interpretations of Dilations; 5 Time and Space.
  • 6 Knowing the Present7 Financial Option Theory; 8 Changeux and Connes, and Chaitin; 9 Digression on Determinism; 10 Final Thoughts; References; Transitions from Deterministic Evolution to Irreversible Probabilistic Processes and the Quantum Measurement Problem; 1 Introduction; 2 Deterministic Dynamics and Probabilistic Markov Processes; 3 Instability of Motion and the Transition from Derterministic Dynamical Evolution to Probabilistic Processes; 4 The Quantum Measurement Problem; Acknowledgments; References; Probabilistic Causality and Irreversibility: Heraclitus and Prigogine; 1 Introduction.

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