Capek, Milic and J. Brenton Stearns.  "Philosophy and Classical Determinism."  Process Studies 11, no. 3 (Fall 1981): 190-8.

Abstract

This article is a response to the previous article by B. Stearns "Becoming: A Problem for Determinists" in which the author defended the view that classical strict determinism of Laplacean kind is compatible with the genuine reality of becoming.  While professor Stearns is correct when he says that a great majority of rank-and-file scientists sincerely believed in the compatibility of strict determinism and genuine succession, he overlooks the fact that the most consistent and philosophically minded among them were aware that a complete predetermination of the future virtually eliminates becoming; for if causal relation is assimilated to a timeless implicative pattern, the future events pre-exist in the present in the same way the future conclusion is pre-contained in the premises; becoming thus is both superfluous and illusory.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]