Between Chance and Choice

Dr Harald Atmanspacher is at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology at Freiburg, Germany. In addition he is a fellow at Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich) and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich, Switzerland.

Preface, Harald Atmanspacher and Robert Bishop Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions, Robert Bishop Perspectives on Scientific Determinism, Gregor Nickel Determinism Is Ontic, Determinability Is Epistemic, Harald Atmanspacher Determinism, Internalism, and Objectivity, Olimpia Lombardi Hidden Determinism, Probability, and Time's Arrow, Hans Primas Time-Space Dilations and Stochastic-Deterministic Dynamics, Karl Gustafson Transitions from Deterministic Evolution to Irreversible Probabilistic Processes and the Quantum Measurement Problem, Baidyanath Misra Probabilistic Causality and Irreversibility: Heraclitus and Prigogine, Theodoros Christidis The Complementary Roles of Chance and Lawlike Elements in Peirce's Evolutionary Cosmology, Frederick Kronz and Amy McLaughlin Does Chance Make a Difference? The Philosophical Significance of Indeterminism, Dennis Dieks On Causal Inference in Determinism and Indeterminism, Joseph Berkovitz Fundamental Limits of Control: A Quantum Approach to the Second Law, Gunter Mahler A Quantum Mechanical Look at Time Travel and Free Will, Daniel Greenberger and Karl Svozil What is Determinism?, Phil Dowe Ontological Presuppositions of the Determinism-Free Will Debate, Charles Guignon Determinism, Chance, and Freedom, Mauro Dorato Free Will, Determinism, and Indeterminism, Robert Kane Agency and Soft Determinism, Jack Martin and Jeff Sugarman Rethinking Determinism in Social Science, Frank Richardson and Robert Bishop Agency, Embodiment, and the Ethical: On Saving Psychology from Biology, Edwin Gantt Time, Information, and Determinism in Psychology, Brent Slife Eastern Determinism Reconsidered from a Scientific Point of View, Takehisa Abe and Fusako Kobayashi Contributors Index