Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.

SKLAR, Lawrence (1938-).

ISBN 10: 0521558816 / ISBN 13: 9780521558815

Editore: University Press, (1995)., Cambridge:, 1995

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First edition. 8vo. xiii, 437 pp. Figures, index. Purple printed wrappers. Near fine. [br] ISBN: 0521558816 Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, and the alleged foundation of the very notion of time asymmetry in the entropic asymmetry of systems in time. The book emphasizes the interaction of scientific and philosophical modes of reasoning, and in this way will interest all philosophers of science as well as those in physics and chemistry concerned with philosophical questions. The book could also be read by an informed general reader interested in the foundations of modern science. [CUP]. Sklar is the Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan.

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• Titolo: Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.
• Editore: University Press, (1995)., Cambridge:
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521558816
• ISBN 13: 9780521558815
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: prima edizione

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Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.

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Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements.