Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Sklar, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 0521558816 ISBN 13: 9780521558815

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York, 1995

Language: English

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Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521558816

ISBN 13

9780521558815

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Soft cover

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1st Edition

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Fine

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Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, and the alleged foundation of the very notion of time asymmetry in the entropic asymmetry of systems in time. The book emphasises the interaction of scientific and philosophical modes of reasoning, and in this way will interest all philosophers of science as well as those in physics and chemistry concerned with philosophical questions. The book could also be read by an informed general reader interested in the foundations of modern science.

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