Indeterminacy and freedom: A reappraisal

Philosophy of Science 22 (1):8-20 (1955)
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Abstract

The developments in 20th century physics which have brought into question the status of causality in subatomic phenomena are common knowledge today in the philosophical world. For the purposes of our discussion attention focusses on the quantum-mechanical solutions which describe atomic states by probability distributions instead of by exact values of observable variables.

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