Chance and temporal asymmetry / edited by Alastair Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Alastair, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chance.

Metaphysics.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 297 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents twelve original essays on the metaphysics of science, with particular focus on the physics of chance and time. Experts in the field subject familiar approaches to searching critiques, and make bold new proposals in a number of key areas. Together, they set the agenda for future work on the subject.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-178253-X

OCLC:

900911339