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 (xv, 383 pages) : illustrations, music

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]

System Details:

text file

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:

1 Definitions, Distinctions, and Dilemmas / Jose V. Ciprut 1

2 Indeterminacy and Freedom of the Will / Paul Guyer 41

3 Indeterminacy and Basic Rationality / Russell Hardin 59

4 Interpretation and Indeterminacy / Aryeh Botwinick 79

5 Reliable Cribs: Decipherment, Learnability, and Indeterminacy / Robin Clark 101

6 Vagueness, Indeterminacy, and Uncertainty / Steven Gross 129

7 Chaos, Complexity, and Indeterminism / Vadim Batitsky, Zoltan Domotor 151

8 Structure and Indeterminacy in Dynamical Systems / Zoltan Domotor 171

9 Function and Indeterminacy: Brain and Behavior / Ruben C. Gur, Diego Contreras, Raquel E. Gur 195

10 Process Unpredictability in Deterministic Systems / Haim H. Bau, Yochanan Shachmurove 215

11 Context, Choice, and Issues of Perceived Determinism in Music / Jay Reise 241

12 History and Indeterminacy: Making Sense of Pasts Imperfect / Warren Breckman 267

13 Adaptive Planning in Dynamic Societies: Giving Sense to Futures Conditional / Anthony Tomazinis 289

14 Four (In)Determinabilities, Not One / Klaus Krippendorff 315

15 Good God! Is Every Something an Echo of Nothing? / Jose V. Ciprut 345.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262270359

0262270358

9781441604439

144160443X

OCLC:

317117426

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Restricted for use by site license.