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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A Chancy 'Magic Trick'.Alan Hájek
Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem.Christopher J. G. Meacham
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
Introduction: Chance and temporal asymmetry.Alastair Wilson
Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum.David Wallace
Proving the Principal Principle.Wolfgang Schwarz
The Sharpness of the Distinction between the Past and the Future.David Z. Albert
Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything.Alexander Bird
Why Physics Can't Explain Everything.Mathias Frisch
Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem.  (pages 45-67)Christopher J. G. Meacham
Is the Past a Matter of Chance?  (pages 126-158)Antony Eagle
Is the past a matter of chance?  (pages 126-158)Antony Eagle
Is the past a matter of chance?  (pages 126-158)Antony Eagle
Experience and the Arrow.  (pages 175-193)L. A. Paul
Statistical Mechanical Imperialism.  (pages 241-257)Brad Weslake
Hume's Dictum and the asymmetry of counterfactual dependence.  (pages 258-279)Jessica Wilson

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