Chance and temporal asymmetry / edited by Alastair Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Alastair, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chance--Congresses.

Chance.

Metaphysics--Congresses.

Metaphysics.

Time--Congresses.

Time.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 297 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

1. Chance and Context / Alastair Wilson

2. Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem / Christopher J. G. Meacham

3. Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham / Carl Hoefer

4. Proving the Principal Principle / Wolfgang Schwarz

5. A Chancy 'Magic Trick' / Alan Hájek

6. From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Renyi: There's No Escaping Humphreys' Paradox (When Generalized) / Aidan Lyon

7. Is the Past a Matter of Chance? / Antony Eagle

8. The Sharpness of the Distinction between the Past and the Future / David Z. Albert

9. Experience and the Arrow / L. A. Paul

10. Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum / David Wallace

11. Why Physics Can't Explain Everything / Mathias Frisch

12. Statistical Mechanical Imperialism / Brad Weslake

13. Hume's Dictum and the Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence / Jessica Wilson

14. Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything / Alexander Bird.

Notes:

Papers based on twin conferences held at Monash University in August, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019967342X

9780199673421

OCLC:

894114284

Publisher Number:

99961143859

60001950809