The Pointsman: Maxwell’s Demon, Victorian Free Will, and the Boundaries of Science
This article discusses the writings of the devout Christian physicist James Clerk Maxwell (best known for his epochal work in electromagnetism and statistical mechanics) on the concept of conscious free-will. To Maxwell a correct understanding of free will, as personified in the example of the railw...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2008
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Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2008, Volume: 69, Issue: 3, Pages: 467-491 |
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