Determinism, Physical Possibility, and Laws of Nature

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Balazs Gyenis (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities)

We call attention to different formulations of how physical laws relate to what is physically possible in the philosophical literature, and argue that it may be the case that determinism fails under one formulation but reigns under the other. Whether this is so depends on our view on the nature of laws and may also depend on the inter-theoretical relationships among our best physical theories, or so shall we argue.

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Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities
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