Derivative Indeterminacy

Metaphysics
My Research
The world is indeterminate but only derivatively so.
Author

Kevin Richardson

Published

February 17, 2025

New paper of mine (Richardson ()) just (officially) dropped on Erkenntnis! Here is the abstract:

Indeterminacy is metaphysical (or worldly) if it has its source in the way the world is (rather than how it is represented or known). There are two questions we could ask about indeterminacy. First: does it exist? Second: is indeterminacy derivative? I focus on the second question. Specifically, I argue that (at least some) metaphysical indeterminacy can be derivative, where this roughly means that facts about indeterminacy are metaphysically grounded in facts about what is determinate.

It’s something I’ve thought about for a while. I’m happy to see this come out now.

References

Richardson, Kevin. 2025. “Derivative Indeterminacy.” Erkenntnis 90 (1): 169–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00692-5.