Resource Letter CD-1: Causality and determinism in physics

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Description: This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on causality and determinism in physics. It first surveys the literature of a long history of attempts to construct a systematic account of causality, attempts that constitute options for the use of the concept in physics. It then surveys the status of determinism in classical, relativistic, and quantum theories.
Roger Jones
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