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Unexpected quantum indeterminacy
Recent philosophical discussions about metaphysical indeterminacy have been substantiated with the idea that quantum mechanics, one of the most...
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Derivative Indeterminacy
Indeterminacy is metaphysical (or worldly) if it has its source in the way the world is (rather than how it is represented or known). There are two...
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Three sources of social indeterminacy
Social ontologists commonly think that our ideas about social entities, and about other people also inhabiting the social realm, play an important...
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Metaphysical indeterminacy in Everettian quantum mechanics
The question of whether Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) justifies the existence of metaphysical indeterminacy has recently come to the fore....
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Propositional Type Theory of Indeterminacy
The aim of this paper is to define a partial Propositional Type Theory. Our system is partial in a double sense: the hierarchy of (propositional)...
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Introducing new work on indeterminacy and underdetermination
This paper summarises the contributions to our Topical Collection on indeterminacy and underdetermination. The collection includes papers in ethics,...
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Indeterminacy and impotence
Recent work in applied ethics has advanced a raft of arguments regarding individual responsibilities to address collective challenges like climate...
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Explicating Quantum Indeterminacy
In recent years there has been a robust but inconclusive debate over the existence and nature of indeterminacy in the world as described by quantum...
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Creationism, Easy Ontology, and Indeterminacy
Amie Thomasson is well known both for defending Creationism about fictional characters (see her 1999, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2015a, and 2016) and for...
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Computational indeterminacy and explanations in cognitive science
Computational physical systems may exhibit indeterminacy of computation (IC). Their identified physical dynamics may not suffice to select a unique...
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Indeterminacy and collective harms
The ‘no-difference problem’ challenges us to explain in which way the occurrence of an aggregate effect gives us reason to act in a specific way,...
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Quantum Mechanics Without Indeterminacy
Metaphysical indeterminacy in the context of quantum mechanics is often motivated by the eigenstate-eigenvalue link. However, the sparse view of...
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Clean Meat and Muddy Markets: Substitution and Indeterminacy in Consumerist Solutions to Animal Agriculture
Synthetic meat products promise to serve as inexpensive substitute proteins that can replace meat made through conventional animal agriculture. At...
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Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research
Far from being unwelcome or impossible in a mathematical setting, indeterminacy in various forms can be seen as playing an important role in driving...
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Derivative Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Quantum Physics
This chapter argues that quantum indeterminacy can be construed as a merely derivative phenomenon. The possibility of merely derivative quantum...
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Belief and rational indeterminacy
This paper is about an anti-expertise paradox that arises because of self-referential sentences like: (*) = I do not believe that (*) is true. The...
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Exploratory modeling and indeterminacy in the search for life
The aim of this article is to use a model from the origin of life studies to provide some depth and detail to our understanding of exploratory models...
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Metaphysical Indeterminacy in the Multiverse
One might suppose that Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) is inhospitable to indeterminacy (MI), given that, as A. Wilson (The nature of contingency:...
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Two quantum logics of indeterminacy
We implement a recent characterization of metaphysical indeterminacy in the context of orthodox quantum theory, develo** the syntax and semantics...
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Indeterminacy and Non-classical Logic
This paper is a response to a challenge set by Timothy Williamson in his Contribution to this volume where he argues that, even leaving aside the...