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The Idea of Determinism by Alexandre Kojève, hardcover cover

The Idea of Determinism

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Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
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Alexandre Kojève, best known for his lectures on Hegel, turns here to a question that sits at the meeting point of physics and philosophy: what does it mean to say the world is determined?

Written in the wake of the quantum revolution, this study traces the idea of determinism from classical mechanics through statistical and quantum physics, and asks what each stage implies for causality, knowledge and human freedom.

A demanding but rewarding book for readers interested in the philosophy of science and the old question of how freedom fits into an ordered cosmos.

  • Classical and statistical ideas of causality
  • What quantum physics changed, and what it did not
  • Determinism, knowledge and freedom