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READERS of Nature may recall a vigorous controversy, conducted in its correspondence columns in 1944 and 1945, on the question whether determinism. In the book which is the subject of the present review, Prof. Born comes down definitely on the side of the indeterminists. His book is not, however, in the main concerned with philosophical ideas. Rather it is an account of the. historical development of parts of theoretical physics, explaining where strict determinism has been replaced by statistical concepts.
Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance
Being the Waynflete Lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, in Hilary Term 1948. By Max Born. Pp. viii + 216. (Oxford: Clarendon Press ; London: Oxford University Press, 1949.) 17s. 6d. net.
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COWLING, T. Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance. Nature 164, 419 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164419a0
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