Selected References (for possible further reading)
(1) For a comprehensive review
of determinism and indeterminism in physics
Earman,
John, A Primer on
Determinism, Reidel, 1986
Earman,
John, "Aspects of Determinism in Modern Physics", in Butterfield, Jeremy
and Earman, John (eds.), Handbook
of Philosophy of Physics, Part B, Elsevier, 2007
(2) On the question whether Newtonian mechanics is deterministic
Norton,
John, "The Dome: An Unexpectedly Simple Failure of
Determinism", Philosophy of Science, vol. 75, no. 5, 2008, 799-816
Wilson,
Mark, "Determinism and the Mystery of the Missing Physics", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 60, no. 1, 2009, 173-193
Zimba, Jason, "Inertia and Determinism", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 59, no. 3, 2008, 417-428
(3) On the Painlevé
Conjecture
Diacu,
Florin, "Painlevé's
Conjecture", The Mathematical Intelligencer, vol.
15, no. 2, 1993, 6-12
Saari,
Donald and Xia, Jeff, "Off to Infinity in Finite Time", Notices of the American
Mathematical Society, vol. 42, no. 5, 1995,
538-546
(4) On Determinism and Randomness
Suppes,
Patrick, "The Transcendental Character of Determinism", Midwest Studies in Philosophy,
vol. XVIII, 1993, 242-257
Earman,
John, A Primer on
Determinism (cited above)
(5) On "Non-Locality" in Quantum Mechanics
There is a large literature on this subject. Two entry points are:
Berkovitz, Joseph, "Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics", The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2007 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.)
Maudlin, Tim, Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity, 2nd edition, Blackwell, 2002
(6) On Putnam's "Quantum Logic"
Gibbins,
Peter and Pearson, David, "The Distributive Law in the Two Slit
Experiment", Foundations of Physics, volume 11, nos. 9-10, 1981,
797-803
Friedman,
Michael and Glymour, Clark, "If Quanta Had Logic", Journal of Philosophical Logic,
vol. 1, 1972, 16-28