Time, Chance, and Reduction: Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics

ISBN: 9780511763953 出版年：2010 页码：219 Gerhard Ernst Andreas Huttemann Cambridge University Press

List of contributors 1. Introduction Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hutteman Part I. The Arrows of Time: 2. Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? Mathias Frisch 3. The part hypothesis meets gravity Craig Callender 4. Quantum gravity and the arrow of time Claus Kiefer Part II. Probability and Chance: 5. The natural-range conception of probability Jacob Rosenthal 6. Probability in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics Roman Frigg 7. Humean mechanics versus a metaphysics of powers Michael Esfeld Part III. Reduction: 8. The crystallisation of Clausius's phenomenological thermodynamics C. Ulises Moulines 9. Reduction and renormalization Robert W. Batterman 10. Irreversibility in stochastic dynamics Jos Uffink Index.