"Let's build an Anscombe box" : assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency

Müller, Thomas

"Let's build an Anscombe box" : assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency

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2022

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Synthese. Springer. 2022, 200(2), 74. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03565-6

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Towards the end of her famous 1971 paper “Causality and Determination”, Elizabeth Anscombe discusses the controversial idea that “ ‘physical haphazard’ could be the only physical correlate of human freedom of action”. In order to illustrate how the high-level freedom of human action can go together with micro-indeterminism without creating a problem for micro-statistics, she provides the analogy of a glass box filled with minute coloured particles whose micro-dynamics is subject to statistical laws, while its outside reliably displays a recognisable variation of a certain image created by an external cause. Anscombe’s example is somewhat enigmatic, and she provides no details to support its viability. In this paper we discuss the context of Anscombe’s analogy, and we provide basics of the theory and practice of building an Anscombe box.

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MÜLLER, Thomas, 2022. "Let's build an Anscombe box" : assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency. In: Synthese. Springer. 2022, 200(2), 74. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03565-6

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@article{Muller2022-04build-56958,
  year={2022},
  doi={10.1007/s11229-022-03565-6},
  title={"Let's build an Anscombe box" : assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency},
  number={2},
  volume={200},
  issn={0039-7857},
  journal={Synthese},
  author={Müller, Thomas},
  note={DFG Grant MU1816/8-1 Article Number: 74}
}

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