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Jay Norton

Boston College
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  • Boston College
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Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Applied Ethics
Normative Ethics
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    What is a Newtonian system? The failure of energy conservation and determinism in supertasks
    with J. S. Alper, M. Bridger, and J. Earman
    Synthese 124 (2): 281-293. 2000.
    Supertasks recently discussed in the literature purport to display a failure ofenergy conservation and determinism in Newtonian mechanics. We debatewhether these supertasks are admissible as Newtonian systems, with Earmanand Norton defending the affirmative and Alper and Bridger the negative.
    Classical Mechanics
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