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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337878603321

Autore

Scardigli Fabio

Titolo

Determinism and Free Will : New Insights from Physics, Philosophy, and Theology / / by Fabio Scardigli, Gerard 't Hooft, Emanuele Severino, Piero Coda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-05505-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (123 pages)

Disciplina

123.5

Soggetti

Physics

Metaphysics

Theology

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Christian Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction (Fabio Scardigli) -- Free Will in the Theory of Everything (Gerard 't Hooft) -- Phenomenology, Freedom, Causality, and the Origin of Western Civilization (Emanuele Severino) -- Grace, Freedom, Relation (Piero Coda).

Sommario/riassunto

In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will. "God does not play dice" said Einstein, a tenacious determinist. Quantum Mechanics and its clash with General Relativity have reanimated ancient dilemmas about chance and necessity: Is Nature deterministic? Is Man free? The “free-will theorem” by Conway and Kochen, and the deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics proposed by 't Hooft, revive such philosophical questions in modern Physics. Is Becoming real? Is the Elementary Event a product of the Case? The cyclopean clash between Heraclitus and Parmenides has entered a new



episode, as evidenced by the essays in this volume.