Pierre-Simon Laplace
In Our Time: Science
The Importance of Free Will in the Philosophy of Science
The French Revolution was an attempt to revolutionize the calendar as they'd revolutionize measurement absolutely so in addition to setting up the metric system the plan was to revolutionize time itself. you still think it had an impact on sorry impact on the philosophy of science well I think it does because there's a big divide now between probabilistic and quantum or whether actually if you set the equations up and run then that you can make predictions into the future. You know the term determinism actually is a real challenge to the idea of free will of course we don't have free will if Laplace is correct because all our decisions in the future are determined by our current set up.
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