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Indeterminacy :

0262270358

144160443X

9780262270359

9781441604439

0262033887

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Indeterminacy :

[Book]

the mapped, the navigable, and the uncharted /

Jose V. Ciprut, editor.

Cambridge, Mass. :

MIT Press,

©2008.

1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) :

illustrations, music

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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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.

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