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The future has no alternative scenarios if determinism is correct. But whether we should adopt such a view of the world is the central topic of this episode.
Moderator:
Anton Kuznetsov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.
Participants:
Sergey Levin is a Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor at the HSE St. Petersburg.
Andrey Mertsalov is an employee of the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.
Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction
03:18 - What is determinism?
04:00 - How does determinism differ from fate or fatalism?
08:11 - Does predictability follow from determinism: the inclusion of an agent inside the system?
10:37 - Determinism and cognitive abilities
11:34 - Summary of determinism, fatalism and predictability
12:27 - Is the world deterministic?
12:41 - The world is indeterminate because of quantum mechanics?
13:53 - Is the world indeterminate because of cognitive limitations?
16:18 - Indeterminism and inadequacy of deterministic models
16:54 - Why don't Anton and Andrey agree?
17:55 - Determinism is paradoxical - the future fixes the past
18:30 - Diversity of the past in the case of determinism
20:30 - Any deterministic concept is contradictory
20:53 - Why are macro objects constant if the world is fundamentally indeterminate?
24:14 - Physics explains it easily
25:13 - We accept indeterministic models because we cannot offer deterministic ones, that's all
26:17 - Indeterminism does not lead to chaos and causeless events
27:55 - Summary of the dispute about the determinacy of the world
30:48 - Causal determinism and determinism of alternative possibilities
31:35 - Sergey Levin's argument for indeterminism - only closed systems can be deterministic
34:20 - Summary, why we accept and do not accept indeterminism
36:12 - Determinism and other philosophical problems
37:48 - How does the question of determinism affect free will?
39:10 - Why can we assume that the question of determinism is not related to free will?
39:44 - And why is it related anyway?
41:08 - Determinism makes it possible to better understand the conditions of free will
43:44 - Final remarks from the participants
45:02 - Summary
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