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A comprehensive treatment of the issues from a philosophical perspective is Sklar 1993. Of important historical interest is Reichenbach 1956. An accessible and up-to-date discussion of the fundamental issues is Albert 2000. The possoible invocation of a time asymmetric law through the GRW approach is discussed in this book. A spirited defense of the initial low entropy approach to time asymmetry is Price 1996. English translations of many original fundamental papers are in Brush 1965. Brush 1976 provides an historical treatment of the development of the theory. Two foundational works that are essential are Gibbs 1960 and Ehrenfest and Ehrenfest 1959.
- Albert, D., 2000, Time and Chance, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Brush, S. (ed.), 1965, Kinetic Theory, Oxford: Pergamon Press. (Scholar)
- Brush, S., 1976, The Kind of Motion That We Call Heat, Amsterdam: North-Holland. (Scholar)
- Ehrenfest, P. and T., 1959, The Conceptual Foundations of the Statistical Approach in Mechanics, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Gibbs, J., 1960, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, New York: Dover. (Scholar)
- Price, H., 1996, Time's Arrow and the Archimedean Point, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Reichenbach, H., 1956, The Direction of Time, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Sklar, L., 1993, Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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