Abstract

GARCIA DE CASTRO, Nicolás. Current Perspectives on Indeterminism in Science. Eidos [online]. 2023, n.40, pp.58-88.  Epub Jan 03, 2024. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.40.986.001.

Newtonian mechanics was for centuries virtually universally regarded as the absolute model of scientific knowledge. However, during the 20th century, developments in physics prompted the need to broaden the conceptual and theoretical framework around fundamental issues such as the predictive power of scientific models or the role of the observer in the description of physical phenomena; this in turn revitalised the long-standing debate between determinism and indeterminism. Today, the disciplinary discussion, far from reaching a consensus, has given rise to new kinds of questions that reflect a change in what Cassirer calls the ideal of knowledge. From a historical synthesis of the debate of the last decades, the present article seeks to point out some contemporary perspectives on indeterminism in science.

Keywords : determinism; indeterminism; predectibility; ideal of knowledge.

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