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.
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.
Alastair Wilson is a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 2011, for a thesis on the metaphysical challenges and opportunities arising from Everettian (many-worlds) quantum mechanics. His current research focuses on modality, chance and fundamentality, and on epistemological and metaphysical questions in cosmology
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry * 1: Toby Handfield and Alastair Wilson: Chance and Context * 2: Christopher J. G. Meacham: Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem * 3: Carl Hoefer: Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham * 4: Wolfgang Schwarz: Proving the Principal Principle * 5: Alan Hájek: A Chancy 'Magic Trick' * 6: Aidan Lyon: From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Rényi: There?s No Escaping Humphreys? Paradox (When Generalized) * 7: Antony Eagle: Is the Past a Matter of Chance? * 8: David Z. Albert: The Sharpness of the Distinction Between the Past and the Future * 9: L. A. Paul: Experience and the Arrow * 10: David Wallace: Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum * 11: Mathias Frisch: Why Physics Can't Explain Everything * 12: Brad Weslake: Statistical-Mechanical Imperialism * 13: Jessica Wilson: Hume's Dictum and Natural Modality: Counterfactuals * 14: Alexander Bird: Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything * Index
* Introduction: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry * 1: Toby Handfield and Alastair Wilson: Chance and Context * 2: Christopher J. G. Meacham: Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem * 3: Carl Hoefer: Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham * 4: Wolfgang Schwarz: Proving the Principal Principle * 5: Alan Hájek: A Chancy 'Magic Trick' * 6: Aidan Lyon: From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Rényi: There?s No Escaping Humphreys? Paradox (When Generalized) * 7: Antony Eagle: Is the Past a Matter of Chance? * 8: David Z. Albert: The Sharpness of the Distinction Between the Past and the Future * 9: L. A. Paul: Experience and the Arrow * 10: David Wallace: Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum * 11: Mathias Frisch: Why Physics Can't Explain Everything * 12: Brad Weslake: Statistical-Mechanical Imperialism * 13: Jessica Wilson: Hume's Dictum and Natural Modality: Counterfactuals * 14: Alexander Bird: Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything * Index
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