Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events

• Yazar: Karl Svozil (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Springer Nature 2018
• Seri Bilgileri: Fundamental Theories of Physics
• Konular: Physics; Self-reflexive knowledge; Physical chaos; Physical random number generators; Irreducible randomness; Randomness in physics; Physical indeterminism; Acausality in physics
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on op...