Add to ORKGThe notions of cause and effect are widely employed in science. I discuss why and how they are rooted into thermodynamics. The entropy gradient (i) explains in which sense interventions affect the future rather than the past, and (ii) underpins the time orientation of the subject of knowledge as a physical system. Via these two distinct paths, it is this gradient, and only this gradient, the source of the time orientation of causation, namely the fact the cause comes before its effects.Comment: 8 page
The concept of time is examined using the second law of thermodynamics that was recently formulated ...
We cannot speak of the industrial revolution of the 19th century without speaking of the scientific ...
Abstract. It is a common belief that in any environment where life is possible, life will generated....
The notions of cause and effect are widely employed in science. I discuss why and how they are roote...
David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept o...
The second law of thermodynamics, with its positive change of entropy for a system not in equilibriu...
The interventionist account of causation has been largely dismissed as a serious candidate for appli...
Causation is a macroscopic phenomenon. The temporal asymmetry displayed by causation must somehow em...
The current consensus view of causation in physics, as commonly held by scientists and philosophers,...
peer reviewedThe distribution of matter in our universe is strikingly time asymmetric. Most famously...
We argue that the inaccessibility of the past is not merely the result of thermodynamics: instead it...
This paper seeks to cast light on some of the more puzzling aspects of causation. My initial aim is ...
The paper tries to demonstrate that the process of the increase of entropy does not explain ...
The distribution of matter in our universe is strikingly time asymmetric. Most famously, the Second ...
The concept of time is examined using the second law of thermodynamics that was recently formulated ...
We cannot speak of the industrial revolution of the 19th century without speaking of the scientific ...
Abstract. It is a common belief that in any environment where life is possible, life will generated....
The notions of cause and effect are widely employed in science. I discuss why and how they are roote...
David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept o...
The second law of thermodynamics, with its positive change of entropy for a system not in equilibriu...
The interventionist account of causation has been largely dismissed as a serious candidate for appli...
Causation is a macroscopic phenomenon. The temporal asymmetry displayed by causation must somehow em...
The current consensus view of causation in physics, as commonly held by scientists and philosophers,...
peer reviewedThe distribution of matter in our universe is strikingly time asymmetric. Most famously...
We argue that the inaccessibility of the past is not merely the result of thermodynamics: instead it...
This paper seeks to cast light on some of the more puzzling aspects of causation. My initial aim is ...
The paper tries to demonstrate that the process of the increase of entropy does not explain ...
The distribution of matter in our universe is strikingly time asymmetric. Most famously, the Second ...
The concept of time is examined using the second law of thermodynamics that was recently formulated ...
We cannot speak of the industrial revolution of the 19th century without speaking of the scientific ...
Abstract. It is a common belief that in any environment where life is possible, life will generated....