Belot, Gordon (2016) Undermined. [Preprint]
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Abstract
A popular strategy for understanding the probabilities that arise in physics is to interpret them via reductionist accounts of chance—indeed, it is sometimes claimed that such accounts are uniquely well-suited to make sense of the probabilities in classical statistical mechanics. Here it is argued that reductionist accounts of chance carry a steep but unappreciated cost: when applied to physical theories of the relevant type, they inevitably distort the relations of probability that they take as input.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy | ||||||
| Keywords: | Chance, Probability, Bet-Systems Account | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Gordon Belot | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2016 03:23 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2016 03:23 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12030 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1080/00048402.2016.1139604 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | 7 April 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12030 |
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