Towards a theory of limited indeterminism in branching space-times

Journal of Philosophical Logic

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-423

  Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agency; Indeterminism; Modality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954513375     PISSN: 00223611     EISSN: 15730433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10992-010-9138-2     Document Type: Article

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