HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Determinism, Pseudoscience
19 Jan 2016
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These terms are the metaphysical components of the mosaic. Newtonian worldview: dynamism (matter is extended substance that interacts through forces and not only by actual contact), dualism, vacuism (anti space is possible), homogeneity, dualistic determinism, infinite universe and monotheism. They open up about that action can happen at a distance, and at a contact. A transition from one worldview to the next normally involves changes in our core metaphysical beliefs. Metaphysics is a set of views about the world taken as a whole. Which contains questions like every world view contains some sort of answer. Metaphysical assumptions of the mosaic may or may not be explicitly stated. In both aristotelian-medieval and cartesian mosaics, most metaphysical components are explicitly stated. Contemporary mosaics, most metaphysical assumptions are implicit and not explicit. Probabilistic determinism: all events have their causes, but the same initial conditions may produce different effects. If we accept quantum physics, but there are options.
