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

Alper, J. S., Bridger, M., Earman, J., and Norton, J. D., "What is a Newtonian System? The Failure of Energy Conservation and Determinism in Supertasks", Synthese, vol. 124, 2000, 281-293

Deakin, Michael A. B., "Nineteenth Century Anticipations of Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems", Archive for History of the Exact Sciences, vol. 39, no. 2, 1988, 183-194

Fletcher, Samuel C., "What Counts as a Newtonian System?  The View from Norton's Dome", forthcoming in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science

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 Statistical Correlations and Generalized Bell-type Inequalities 

           A great deal of work has been done on this subject in recent years. Much of it can be found in the following unpublished dissertation:

           Seevinck, Michael, Parts and Wholes:  An Inquiry into Quantum and Classical Correlations

 
(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 (Winter 2008 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

Bacciagaluppi, Guido, "Critique of Putnam's Quantum Logic", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, vol. 32,  1993, 1835-1846