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List of contributors vi
1 Introduction Gerhard Ernst Andreas Hüttemann 1
Part I The arrows of time 11
2 Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? Mathias Frisch 13
3 The past hypothesis meets gravity Craig Callender 34
4 Quantum gravity and the arrow of time Claus Kiefer 59
Part II Probability and chance 69
5 The natural-range conception of probability Jacob Rosenthal 71
6 Probability in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics Roman Frigg 92
7 Humean metaphysics versus a metaphysics of powers Michael Esfeld 119
Part III Reduction 137
8 The crystallization of Clausius's phenomenological thermodynamics C. Ulises Moulines 139
9 Reduction and renormalization Robert W. Batterman 159
10 Irreversibility in stochastic dynamics Jos Uffink 180
Index 208
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Paul De Groot
reviewed Time, Chance, and Reduction: Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics on February 21, 2011
Time, Chance, and Reduction: Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics
Easy to understand, mathematically rigorous , full of insights, it's simply fantastic...
In my view, it is the best book among the many titles that is written by Walter Greiner
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