We discuss two supertasks invented recently by Laraudogoitia [1996, 1997]. Both involve an infinite number of particle collisions within a finite amount of time and both compromise determinism. We ...

Synthese, Vol. 196, No. 1, Special Issue on Real Possibilities, Indeterminism and Free Will (January 2019), pp. 145-160 (16 pages) The aim of this paper is to respond to recent discussion of, and ...

One of the great debates in this history of philosophy (eventually evolving into science and social science) has been between determinism and indeterminism. Determinists argued that all other things ...

In his Essay 'Is free will an illusion?' (Nature 459, 164–165; 2009), Martin Heisenberg argues that humans must have free will because freedom of action has been demonstrated in other animals — ...

IT has become the orthodox view of physicists to-day, that the momentary state of a physical system does not determine its movement or development or behaviour, to follow; Nature is supposed to be ...

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Few of Albert Einstein’s sayings have been as widely quoted as his remark that God does not play dice with the universe. People have naturally taken his quip as proof that he was dogmatically opposed ...

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