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Title Time, chance and reduction : philosophical aspects of statistical mechanics / edited by Gerhard Ernst, Andreas Hüttemann.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann -- Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? / Mathias Frisch -- The past hypothesis meets gravity / Craig Callender -- Quantum gravity and the arrow of time / Claus Kiefer -- The natural-range conception of probability / Jacob Rosenthal -- Probability in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics / Roman Frigg -- Humean metaphysics versus a metaphysics of powers / Michael Esfeld -- The crystallization of Clausius's phenomenological thermodynamics / C. Ulises Moulines -- Reduction and renormalization / Robert W. Batterman -- Irreversibility in stochastic dynamis / Jos Uffink.
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Subject Statistical mechanics.
Statistical mechanics.
Statistical mechanics -- Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ernst, Gerhard, 1971-
Hüttemann, Andreas.
Other Form: Print version: Time, chance and reduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521884013 (DLC) 2010293279 (OCoLC)437083113
ISBN 9780511770104 (electronic book)
0511770103 (electronic book)
051176703X (electronic book)
9780511767036 (electronic book)
9780521884013 (hardback)
0521884012 (hardback)
Standard No. 9786612651724