Probabilities in physics / edited by Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beisbart, Claus, editor.

Hartmann, Stephan, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics.

Probabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 437 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides a philosophical appraisal of probabilities in all of physics. It makes sense of probabilistic statements as they occur in the various physical theories and models and presents a plausible epistemology and metaphysics of probabilities.

Contents:

1. Introduction, Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann

I Probabilities in Statistical Physics

2. Subjective Probability and Statistical Physics, Jos Uffink

3. An Objectivist Account of Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics, D.A. Lavis

4. The Past Histories of Molecules, Craig Callender

5. Entropy: A Guide for the Perplexed, Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl

6. Probabilistic Modeling in Physics, Claus Beisbart

II Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics

7. Aspects of Probability in Quantum Theory, Michael Dickson

8. Probabilities in Realist Views of Quantum Mechanics, Christopher G. Timpson

9. Quantum Probabilities: An Information-Theoretic Interpretation, Jeffrey Bub

10. Interpreting Probabilities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Laura Ruetsche and John Earman

III Philosophical Perspectives

11. Three Roads to Objective Probability, Tim Maudlin

12. Physics and the Humean Approach to Probability, Carl Hoefer

13. Probability Out Of Determinism, Michael Strevens

14. Can theWorld be Shown to be Indeterministic After All?, Christian Wuthrich.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-420).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-35246-X

9786613352460

0-19-161820-9

OCLC:

922970460