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Why Dynamical Self-Excitation Is Possible

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In Pérez Laraudogoitia (1996), I introduced a simple example of a supertask that involved the possibility of spontaneous self-excitation and, therefore, of a particularly interesting form of indeterminism in classical dynamics. Alper and Bridger (1998) criticised (among other things) this result. In the present article, I answer their criticisms. In what follows I assume familiarity both with Pérez Laraudogoitia (1996) and Alper and Bridger’s subsequent article.

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Laraudogoitia, J.P. Why Dynamical Self-Excitation Is Possible. Synthese 119, 313–323 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005241129759

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