Physical (A)Causality —— Determinism, Randomness And Uncaused Events

----- 物理因果关系：决定论、随机性与无前因事件

ISBN: 9783319708140 出版年：2018 页码：282 Karl Svozil Springer

This book is open access under a cc by 4.0 license.This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way.

all our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on operational means of empirical perception. Some of the questions that arise are the following: are these limitations reflected by our models? under what circumstances does chance kick in? is chance in physics merely epistemic? in other words, do we simply not know enough, or use too crude levels of description for our predictions? or are certain events 'truly', that is, irreducibly, random?

the book tries to answer some of these questions by introducing intrinsic, embedded observers and provable unknowns; that is, observables and procedures which are certified (relative to the assumptions) to be unknowable or undoable.