Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues In The Foundations Of Statistical Mechanics - Couverture souple

Sklar, Lawrence

 
9780521558815: Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues In The Foundations Of Statistical Mechanics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521558816 ISBN 13 : 9780521558815
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 emphasises 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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 emphasises 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.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521558816
ISBN 13 
9780521558815
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780521440554: Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521440556 ISBN 13 :  9780521440554
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1993
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