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050	0	0	_aQC174.84 _b.T56 2010
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245	0	0	_aTime, chance and reduction : _bphilosophical aspects of statistical mechanics / _cedited by Gerhard Ernst, Andreas Hüttemann.
246	3		_aTime, Chance, & Reduction
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (vi, 211 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).
505	0		_aIntroduction / 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.
520			_aStatistical mechanics attempts to explain the behaviour of macroscopic physical systems in terms of the mechanical properties of their constituents. Although it is one of the fundamental theories of physics, it has received little attention from philosophers of science. Nevertheless, it raises philosophical questions of fundamental importance on the nature of time, chance and reduction. Most philosophical issues in this domain relate to the question of the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics. This book addresses issues inherent in this reduction: the time-asymmetry of thermodynamics and its absence in statistical mechanics; the role and essential nature of chance and probability in this reduction when thermodynamics is non-probabilistic; and how, if at all, the reduction is possible. Compiling contributions on current research by experts in the field, this is an invaluable survey of the philosophy of statistical mechanics for academic researchers and graduate students interested in the foundations of physics.
650		0	_aStatistical mechanics.
650		0	_aStatistical mechanics _xPhilosophy.
700	1		_aErnst, Gerhard, _d1971- _eeditor.
700	1		_aHüttemann, Andreas, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521884013
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770777
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