THE LAPLACE DETERMINISM: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE IDEA TO THE CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS
E. V. Koveshnikov1, V. N. Savchenko2
1 Ussuriisk
2 Vladivostok
Keywords: Laplace, mechanicism, determinism, indeterminism, fatalism, uncertainty, dualism, logic, education, world outlook
Abstract
The main goals of the article are 1) to acquaint the reader with the history of Laplace determinism, the central idea of this scientific and philosophic program and those fundamental problems, which arose after legalization of this program in science, 2) to suggest some ways of solution of those problems. The main theme of article is that determinism is not yet gotten over in the minds of scientists and ordinary people, and this fact presents the main problem of modernity. We suggest a pedagogical solution of this problem. It is a correction of educational plans (from secondary schools to higher education institutions), and it is the propaganda of indeterminism ideas among the young people, because the blind belief in determinism is very dangerous in our technological century.
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