How Determinism Can Fail in Classical Physics and How Quantum Physics Can (Sometimes) Provide a Cure

Author:

Earman John

Abstract

Various fault modes of determinism in classical physics are outlined. It is shown how quantum mechanics can cure some forms of classical indeterminism.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History

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