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title: "Gordon Belot"
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status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Gordon Belot"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["determinism","philosophy of general relativity","hole argument","James Owen Weatherall"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
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Philosopher of physics whose 1995 papers proposed the D1/D2/D3 taxonomy of formal definitions of determinism for physical theories. Matters to this vault as the explicit foundation the 2026 Halvorson–Manchak–Weatherall determinism papers set out to rehabilitate and extend — a figure cited for his own prior work, not a co-author merely named alongside theirs.

## References
- [[claim-halvorson-manchak-weatherall-2026-determinism-papers-have-zero-computation-contact]]