Indeterminacy : the mapped, the navigable, and the uncharted / Jose V. Ciprut, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ciprut, Jose V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Definition (Philosophy).

Uncertainty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the concepts of indeterminacy and indeterminability and the distinctions between the two.Formal thinking about certainty/uncertainty gained greater focus in scientific domains with the advent of particle physics and quantum mechanics. Concern with the exact predictability of events under guidance from scientific determinism led to speculation, then acknowledgement of quantum indeterminacy. But distinctions were made between what is physically indeterminate out there and what is indeterminable by human observation or in human action--over here, on the inside, right now. The implications of these insights into indeterminacy and indeterminabilities for practical and theoretical knowledge span physics, philosophy, ontology, causality, and the philosophy of mind. In this book, contributors from a range of disciplines consider the concept of indeterminacy and a few varieties of indeterminability, with attention to the distinctions between the two phenomena, appropriate approaches for examining both, and the differences vis-a-vis uncertainty, vagueness, and ambiguity.

Contents:

Definitions, distinctions, and dilemmas / Jose V. Ciprut

Indeterminacy and freedom of the will / Paul Guyer

Indeterminacy and basic rationality / Russell Hardin

Interpretation and indeterminacy / Aryeh Botwinick

Reliable cribs: decipherment, learnability, and indeterminacy / Robin Clark

Vagueness, indeterminacy, and uncertainty / Steven Gross

Chaos, complexity, and indeterminism / Vadim Batitsky, Zoltan Domotor

Structure and indeterminacy in dynamical systems / Zoltan Domotor

Function and indeterminacy: brain and behavior / Ruben C. Gur, Diego Contreras, Raquel E. Gur

Process unpredictability in deterministic systems / Haim H. Bau, Yochanan Shachmurove

Context, choice, and issues of perceived determinism in music / Jay Reise

History and indeterminacy: making sense of pasts imperfect / Warren Breckman

Adaptive planning in dynamic societies: giving sense to futures conditional / Anthony Tomazinis

Four (in)determinabilities, not one / Klaus Krippendorff

Good God! Is every something an echo of nothing? / Jose V. Ciprut.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-262-27035-8

1-4416-0443-X

OCLC:

317117426