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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 32)
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The title of this work is to be taken seriously: it is a small book for teaching students to read the language of determinism. Some prior knowledge of college-level mathematics and physics is presupposed, but otherwise the book is suitable for use in an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in the philosophy of science. While writing I had in mind primarily a philosophical audience, but I hope that students and colleagues from the sciences will also find the treatment of scientific issues of interest. Though modest in not trying to reach beyond an introductory level of analysis, the work is decidedly immodest in trying to change a number of misimpressions that pervade the philosophical literature. For example, when told that classical physics is not the place to look for clean and unproblematic examples of determinism, most philosophers react with a mixture of disbelief and incomprehension. The misconcep tions on which that reaction is based can and must be changed.
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`...this book makes a useful contribution to the subject as a whole. It is well worth reading...'
Dabid Bohm, Dept. of Physics, Birbeck College
Dabid Bohm, Dept. of Physics, Birbeck College
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Primer on Determinism
Authors: John Earman
Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1986
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2240-9Published: 31 August 1986
Series ISSN: 1566-659X
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 273