Add to ORKGDavid Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept of causal influence or control is grounded in the statistical mechanical assumption of a low-entropy past. In this paper I critically examine Albert's and Loewer's accounts
I attempt to get as clear as possible on the chain of reasoning by which irreversible macrodynamics ...
5 pages. Few equations. An ideaPhenomenological arrows of time can be traced to a past low-entropy s...
The second law of thermodynamics, with its positive change of entropy for a system not in equilibriu...
David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept o...
It is part of our common sense conception of the world that what happens now can make a difference t...
It is part of our common sense conception of the world that what happens now can make a difference t...
David Albert explains why we can typically influence the future but not the past by appealing to an ...
We argue that the inaccessibility of the past is not merely the result of thermodynamics: instead it...
As the past-future asymmetry – that fact that we have records of the past but not the future – is st...
The notions of cause and effect are widely employed in science. I discuss why and how they are roote...
The paper tries to demonstrate that the process of the increase of entropy does not explain ...
This dissertation contests David Albert's recent arguments that the proposition that the universe be...
peer reviewedThe distribution of matter in our universe is strikingly time asymmetric. Most famously...
I study the physical nature of traces (or memories). Surprisingly, (i) systems separation with (ii) ...
In this paper I challenge David Albert's account of the knowledge asymmetry, arguing that an informa...
I attempt to get as clear as possible on the chain of reasoning by which irreversible macrodynamics ...
5 pages. Few equations. An ideaPhenomenological arrows of time can be traced to a past low-entropy s...
The second law of thermodynamics, with its positive change of entropy for a system not in equilibriu...
David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept o...
It is part of our common sense conception of the world that what happens now can make a difference t...
It is part of our common sense conception of the world that what happens now can make a difference t...
David Albert explains why we can typically influence the future but not the past by appealing to an ...
We argue that the inaccessibility of the past is not merely the result of thermodynamics: instead it...
As the past-future asymmetry – that fact that we have records of the past but not the future – is st...
The notions of cause and effect are widely employed in science. I discuss why and how they are roote...
The paper tries to demonstrate that the process of the increase of entropy does not explain ...
This dissertation contests David Albert's recent arguments that the proposition that the universe be...
peer reviewedThe distribution of matter in our universe is strikingly time asymmetric. Most famously...
I study the physical nature of traces (or memories). Surprisingly, (i) systems separation with (ii) ...
In this paper I challenge David Albert's account of the knowledge asymmetry, arguing that an informa...
I attempt to get as clear as possible on the chain of reasoning by which irreversible macrodynamics ...
5 pages. Few equations. An ideaPhenomenological arrows of time can be traced to a past low-entropy s...
The second law of thermodynamics, with its positive change of entropy for a system not in equilibriu...