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