Explanation and Randomness

• Autores: José Luis Rolleri
• Localización: Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science, ISSN 0495-4548, Vol. 25, Nº 67, 2010, págs. 59-73
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this paper is to elaborate a notion of explanation which is applicable to stochastic processes such as quantum processes. The model-theoretic approach was adopted in order to delimit appropriate classes, by defining set-theoretical predicates, of different kinds of physical transformations that quantum systems suffer, either of transitions or of transmutations, by interaction or in a spontaneous manner. To explain a singular quantum process consists in showing that it is feasible to model it as an indeterministic process of certain specified kind.