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020			_a9780511624933 (ebook)
020			_z9780521440554 (hardback)
020			_z9780521558815 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQC174.8 _b.S55 1993
082	0	0	_a530.1/3 _220
100	1		_aSklar, Lawrence, _eauthor.
245	0	0	_aPhysics and chance : _bphilosophical issues in the foundations of statistical mechanics / _cLawrence Sklar.
246	3		_aPhysics & Chance
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1993.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 437 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aStatistical 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.
650		0	_aStatistical mechanics.
650		0	_aPhysics _xPhilosophy.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521440554
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624933
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