Branching in the landscape of possibilities

Müller, Thomas

Branching in the landscape of possibilities

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2012

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Open Access Green

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Philosophie

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Synthese. 2012, 188(1), pp. 41-65. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-011-0059-6

Zusammenfassung

The metaphor of a branching tree of future possibilities has a number of important philosophical and logical uses. In this paper we trace this metaphor through some of its uses and argue that the metaphor works the same way in physics as in phi- losophy. We then give an overview of formal systems for branching possibilities, viz., branching time and (briefly) branching space-times. In a next step we describe a num- ber of different notions of possibility, thereby sketching a landscape of possibilities. In the final section of the paper we look at the place of branching-based possibilities in that larger landscape of possibilities. Our main message is that far from being an outlandish metaphysical extravagancy, branching-based possibilities are epistemically as well as metaphysically basic.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

100 Philosophie

Schlagwörter

Branching time, Branching space-times, Modality, Possibility, Experiment

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MÜLLER, Thomas, 2012. Branching in the landscape of possibilities. In: Synthese. 2012, 188(1), pp. 41-65. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-011-0059-6

BibTex

@article{Muller2012Branc-27101,
  year={2012},
  doi={10.1007/s11229-011-0059-6},
  title={Branching in the landscape of possibilities},
  number={1},
  volume={188},
  issn={0039-7857},
  journal={Synthese},
  pages={41--65},
  author={Müller, Thomas}
}

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