Chance and Temporal Asymmetry

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Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014)
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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

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BC141.C43 2014

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9780199673421   019967342X
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The Sharpness of the Distinction between the Past and the Future.David Z. Albert
Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything.Alexander Bird
Is the Past a Matter of Chance?Antony Eagle
Why Physics Can't Explain Everything.Mathias Frisch
A Chancy 'Magic Trick'.Alan Hájek
Chance and Context.Toby Handfield & Alastair Wilson
Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham.Carl Hoefer
From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Renyi: There's No Escaping Humphreys' Paradox (When Generalized).Aidan Lyon
Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem.Christopher J. G. Meacham
Experience and the Arrow.L. A. Paul
Proving the Principal Principle.Wolfgang Schwarz
Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum.David Wallace
Statistical Mechanical Imperialism.Brad Weslake
Hume's Dictum and the asymmetry of counterfactual dependence.Jessica Wilson
Introduction: Chance and temporal asymmetry.Alastair Wilson

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