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Project

Indeterminism and instabilmiteit in nineteenth-century physics
Code
01SM0712
Duration
01 September 2012 → 31 December 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • History and foundations
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
  • Social sciences
    • General pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Communication sciences
Keywords
physics determinism philosophy nineteenth century History of science
 
Project description
 

This research is about the end-nineteenth-century debate about deterlinisme in physics, about the different ways in which physicists and philosophers could doubt or reject this determinism, and about whether the question if nature is deterministic was regarded(and should be regarded) as a purely physical or rather as a philosophical issue.