John Earman is an American philosopher of science who wrote A Primer on Determinism and World Enough and Space-Time.

Quotes by John Earman in Time One

Although it is not clear what the quantum theory implies about determinism, it is clear that the implications are potentially profound.

Perhaps the most venerable of all the philosophical definitions holds that the world is deterministic just in case every event has a cause.

All sorts of nasty things―TV sets showing Nixon’s “Checkers speech,” green slime, Japanese horror movie monsters, etc.―emerge helter-skelter from the singularity.

Newton, Huygens, Leibniz, Berkeley, Maxwell, Kant, Mach, Poincaré―these are names to conjure with. The fact that not one of them was able to provide a coherent theory of the phenomena of classical rotation is at first blush astonishing.