Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabilities seem to be objective chances. This does not seem to sit well with the fact that the theory’s time evolution is deterministic. We argue that the tension between the two is only apparent. We present a theory of Humean objective chance and show that chances thus understood are compatible with underlying determinism and provide an interpretation of the probabilities we find in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics
Despite the intuitive conflict between deterministic laws of nature and objective chances, philosoph...
This chapter focuses on the relations between objective probabilities in physical theories at differ...
Several philosophers have developed accounts to dissolve the apparent conflict between deterministic...
Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabil...
Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabil...
In two recent papers Barry Loewer (2001, 2004) has suggested to interpret probabilities in statistic...
In two recent papers Barry Loewer (2001, 2004) has suggested to interpret probabilities in statistic...
Statistical physicists assume a probability distribution over micro-states to explain thermodynamic ...
In an illuminating article, Claus Beisbart argues that the recently-popular thesis that the probabil...
On the face of it ‘deterministic chance’ is an oxymoron: either a process is chancy or deterministic...
According to Humean theories of objective chance, the chances reduce to patterns in the history of o...
Statistical physicists assume a probability distribution over micro-states to explain thermodynamic ...
Despite the intuitive conflict between deterministic laws of nature and objective chances, philosoph...
This chapter focuses on the relations between objective probabilities in physical theories at differ...
Several philosophers have developed accounts to dissolve the apparent conflict between deterministic...
Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabil...
Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabil...
In two recent papers Barry Loewer (2001, 2004) has suggested to interpret probabilities in statistic...
In two recent papers Barry Loewer (2001, 2004) has suggested to interpret probabilities in statistic...
Statistical physicists assume a probability distribution over micro-states to explain thermodynamic ...
In an illuminating article, Claus Beisbart argues that the recently-popular thesis that the probabil...
On the face of it ‘deterministic chance’ is an oxymoron: either a process is chancy or deterministic...
According to Humean theories of objective chance, the chances reduce to patterns in the history of o...
Statistical physicists assume a probability distribution over micro-states to explain thermodynamic ...
Despite the intuitive conflict between deterministic laws of nature and objective chances, philosoph...
This chapter focuses on the relations between objective probabilities in physical theories at differ...
Several philosophers have developed accounts to dissolve the apparent conflict between deterministic...