Frigg, Roman (2008) A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]
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This is an extensive review of recent work on the foundations of statistical mechanics.
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| Keywords: | Statistical mechanics, Boltzmann, Gibbs, probability, typicality, microcanonical distribution, thermodynamics, second law, recurrence, reversibility, Loschmidt, Zermelo, time reversal, ergodicity, mixing, coarse graining, past hypothesis, reductionism, ensemble, phase average, thermodynamic limit, Khinchin, Interventionism, entropy, Shannon, Jaynes, Albert, Goldstein, Lebowitz. |
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
| Depositing User: | Roman Frigg |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:16 |
| Item ID: | 3964 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3964 |
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