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    It is not the case that Exploring determinism in physical theories is valuable even if it does not tell us whether our world is governed by deterministic laws

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    • 1.Epistemically, theoretical exploration of determinism without ontological commitment risks producing sophisticated but practically idle metaphysics.
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    • 2.Reichenbach and later van Fraassen argued that scientific inquiry divorced from empirical adequacy criteria generates pseudo-knowledge about modal structure.
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    • 3.If determinism's truth-value in our world is inaccessible, systematizing its formal properties yields conceptual clarity without genuine philosophical progress on free will.
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    • 1.Earman's own work on Laplacian determinism demonstrates that even rigorous physical formalization fails to resolve the compatibilist-incompatibilist dispute.
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    • 2.If our best physical theories are too flawed to identify determinism's presence, they are equally too flawed to ground normatively significant conclusions about agency and responsibility.
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    • 1.Exploring determinism in physical theories enriches our understanding of the richness and complexity of determinism
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    • 2.Current best theories, including General Relativity and the Standard Model, are too flawed and ill-understood to be mistaken for a Final Theory
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