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    Challenges→Exploring determinism in physical theories is valuable even if it does not tell us whether our world is governed by deterministic laws

    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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    Normatively significant(as used in ethics)
    Matters in a way that affects what we should believe is right or wrong, good or bad; has real moral or ethical weight.
    Physical theories(as what the mathematics is being applied to)
    Scientific explanations of how the natural world works, like Einstein's theory of relativity or quantum mechanics.
    To ground (a conclusion)(as used in epistemology)
    To provide a solid logical foundation or justification for a belief or claim; to base it on something reliable.
    agency(Used to assess whether switching the trolley is deontologically prohibited.)
    A morally relevant sense in which an agent is the direct cause of harm, invoked in deontological constraints; its absence removes a deontological bar to acting.
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    (Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
    A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')
    responsibility(as used in ethics)
    Being morally accountable for your actions—deserving praise or blame for what you do.

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