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Chance and Temporal Asymmetry (Hardcover)
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Chance and Temporal Asymmetry (Hardcover)
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Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge
research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the
perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the
physics and metaphysics of chance and time. How do the
probabilities found in fundamental physics and the probabilities of
the special sciences relate to one another? Can a constraint on the
initial conditions of the universe underwrite the second law of
thermodynamics? How does contemporary quantum theory reframe
debates over the nature of chance? What grounds do we have for
believing in a fundamental direction to time? And how do all these
questions connect up? The aim of the volume is both to survey and
summarize recent debates about chance and temporal asymmetry and to
push them forward. Familiar approaches are subjected to searching
new critiques, and bold new proposals are made concerning (inter
alia) the semantics of chance-attributions, the justification of
the Principal Principle connecting chance and degree of belief, and
the source of the temporal asymmetry of human experience. The
contributors include world-leading figures in the field, all
presenting new work rather than rehashing old ideas, as well as a
number of promising junior scholars. A wide-ranging introduction
connects the different chapters together, and provides essential
background to the debates they take up. Technicality is kept to a
minimum and philosophical and conceptual foundations take centre
stage. Chance and Temporal Asymmetry sets the agenda for future
work on time and chance, which are central to the emerging
sub-field of metaphysics of science. It will be indispensable to
graduate students and to specialists in metaphysics and philosophy
of science.
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