The probability map of the universe essays on David Albert's Time and Chance
I. Overview of Time and Chance -- The Mentaculus: A Probability Map of the Universe - Barry Loewer -- II. Foundations -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: On the Status of PROB and PH - Eric -- Winsberg -- The Logic of the Past Hypothesis- David Wallace -- In What Sense Is the E...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
Harvard University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | I. Overview of Time and Chance -- The Mentaculus: A Probability Map of the Universe - Barry Loewer -- II. Foundations -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: On the Status of PROB and PH - Eric -- Winsberg -- The Logic of the Past Hypothesis- David Wallace -- In What Sense Is the Early Universe Fine-Tuned? - Sean Carroll -- The Meta-Reversibility Objection - Chris Meacham -- Typicality vs. Humean Accounts of Statistical Mechanics - Dustin Lazarovici -- The Past Hypothesis and the Nature of Physical Laws - Eddy Chen -- III. The Scope of Statistical Mechanics -- On the Albertian Demon - Tim Maudlin -- Do Statistical Mechanical Probabilities Need Quantum Shuffling? Albert's Boltzmannian -- Story and GRW Collapses - Jenann Ismael -- IV. Underwriting the Asymmetries of Knowledge and Intervention -- Reading the Past in the Present - Nick Huggett -- Causes, Randomness, and the Past Hypothesis - Mathias Frisch -- Time, Flies, and Why We Can't Control the Past - Alison Fernandes -- The Concept of Intervention - Sidney Felder "David Albert's 2000 book Time and Chance attempts to account for some of the most intractable problems in theoretical physics, in particular those arising from the direction of time. This collection assembles essays exploring and debating Albert's ideas, now recognized as among the most important recent contributions to the philosophy of science"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | vi, 389 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780674967878 978-0-674-96787-8 |