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Andrews, Mel (2021) The Math is not the Territory: Navigating the Free Energy Principle. [Preprint]

Ardourel, Vincent (2022) Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles. [Preprint]

Bacciagaluppi, Guido and Crull, Elise and Maroney, O J E (2017) Jordan's Derivation of Blackbody Fluctuations. [Preprint]

Badino, Massimiliano (2005) The Foundational Role of Ergodic Theory. [Preprint]

Badino, Massimiliano (2006) Probability and Statistics in Boltzmann's Early Papers on Kinetic Theory. [Preprint]

Badino, Massimiliano (2005) Probability and Statistics in Boltzmann's Early Papers on Kinetic Theory. [Preprint]

Badino, Massimiliano (2006) Was there a statistical Turn ? The Interaction between Mechanics and Probability in Boltzmann's Theory of Non Equilibrium (1872-1877). [Preprint]

Baker, David John (2010) Broken Symmetry and Spacetime. [Preprint]

Barandes, Jacob A. (2023) The Stochastic-Quantum Theorem. [Preprint]

Baras, Dan and Shenker, Orly R. (2020) Calling for Explanation: The Case of the Thermodynamic Past State. [Preprint]

Barrett, Jeffrey A. and Chen, Eddy Keming (2023) Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws. [Preprint]

Batterman, Robert (2004) Critical Phenomena and Breaking Drops: Infinite Idealizations in Physics. [Preprint]

Batterman, Robert W. (2011) The Tyranny of Scales. [Preprint]

Batterman, Robert (2017) Universality and RG Explanations. [Preprint]

Baumann, Veronika and Del Santo, Flavio (2022) Many Worlds are irrelevant for the problem of the arrow of time. [Preprint]

Beisbart, Claus (2013) Good just isn't good enough - Humean chances and Boltzmannian statistical physics. [Preprint]

Belot, Gordon (2016) Undermined. [Preprint]

Berkovitz, Joseph and Frigg, Roman and Kronz, Fred (2006) The Ergodic Hierarchy, Randomness and Hamiltonian Chaos. [Preprint]

Bishop, Robert (2003) Brussels-Austin Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics in the Early Years: Similarity Transformations between Deterministic and Probabilistic Descriptions. [Preprint]

Bishop, Robert (2003) Brussels-Austin Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics in the Later Years: Large Poincaré Systems and Rigged Hilbert Space. [Preprint]

Bishop, Robert C and Atmanspacher, Harald (2006) Contextual Emergence in the Description of Properties. [Preprint]

Bradley, Seamus and Thebault, Karim P Y (2017) Models on the Move: Migration and Imperialism. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R and Uffink, Jos (2001) The Origins of Time-asymmetry in Thermodynamics: The Minus First Law. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R. (2011) Curious and sublime: the connection between uncertainty and probability in physics. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R. and Myrvold, Wayne (2008) Boltzmann's H-theorem, its limitations, and the birth of (fully) statistical mechanics. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R. (2017) Once and for all: the curious role of probability in the Past Hypothesis. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy (2010) Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconciled. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy and Bouatta, Nazim (2011) Emergence and Reduction Combined in Phase Transitions. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy and Bouatta, Nazim (2013) Renormalization for Philosophers. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy (2018) On Dualities and Equivalences Between Physical Theories. [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2007) The Emergence and Interpretation of Probability in Bohmian Mechanics. [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2010) Hot and Heavy Matters in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2004) Measures, Explanations and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions be Explained? [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2008) The Past Hypothesis Meets Gravity. [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2001) Taking Thermodynamics Too Seriously. [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2023) The Prodigy That Time Forgot: The Incredible and Untold Story of John von Newton. [Preprint]

Campisi, Michele (2007) Mechanical Proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Based on Volume Entropy. [Preprint]

Campisi, Michele and Hänggi, Peter (2011) Fluctuation, Dissipation and the Arrow of Time. [Preprint]

Carcassi, Gabriele and Aidala, Christine A (2019) Hamiltonian mechanics is conservation of information entropy. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2020) From Time Asymmetry to Quantum Entanglement: The Humean Unification. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2021) Fundamental Nomic Vagueness. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2023) Laws of Physics. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2020) The Past Hypothesis and the Nature of Physical Laws. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2019) Quantum States of a Time-Asymmetric Universe: Wave Function, Density Matrix, and Empirical Equivalence. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2019) Time's Arrow in a Quantum Universe: On the Status of Statistical Mechanical Probabilities. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming (2022) The Wentaculus: Density Matrix Realism Meets the Arrow of Time. [Preprint]

Chen, Eddy Keming and Tumulka, Roderich (2020) Uniform Probability Distribution Over All Density Matrices. [Preprint]

Chibbaro, Sergio and Rondoni, Lamberto and Vulpiani, Angelo (2014) On the foundations of statistical mechanics: ergodicity, many degrees of freedom and inference. [Preprint]

Chibbaro, Sergio and Vulpiani, Angelo (2017) Compressibility, laws of nature, initial conditions and complexity. [Preprint]

Chua, Eugene Y. S. (2021) Degeneration and Entropy. [Preprint]

Chua, Eugene Y. S. (2019) Does Von Neumann's Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy? [Preprint]

Chua, Eugene Y. S. and Chen, Eddy Keming (2023) Decoherence, Branching, and the Born Rule in a Mixed-State Everettian Multiverse. [Preprint]

Cirkovic, Milan M. (2002) The Thermodynamical Arrow of Time: Reinterpreting the Boltzmann-Schuetz Argument. [Preprint]

Clifton, Rob (2001) The Subtleties of Entanglement and its Role in Quantum Information Theory. [Preprint]

Crull, Elise (2017) Translation of: P. Ehrenfest (1925), 'Energieschwankungen im Strahlungsfeld oder Kristallgitter bei Superposition quantisierter Eigenschwingungen'. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2014) Are Classical Black Holes Hot or Cold? [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2014) Classical Black Holes Are Hot. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2005) On the Formal Consistency of Theory and Experiment, with Applications to Problems in the Initial-Value Formulation of the Partial-Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2014) Why Rigid Designation Cannot Stand on Scientific Ground. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2020) Schematizing the Observer and the Epistemic Content of Theories. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2018) What Is a Black Hole? [Preprint]

Davey, Kevin (2006) Justification in Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

De Haro, Sebastian (2020) On Empirical Equivalence and Duality. [Preprint]

De Haro, Sebastian (2019) Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences. [Preprint]

Dieks, Dennis (2012) Is There a Unique Physical Entropy? Micro versus Macro. [Preprint]

Dieks, Dennis (2014) The Logic of Identity: Distinguishability and Indistinguishability in Classical and Quantum Physics. [Preprint]

Dieks, Dennis and van Dongen, Jeroen and de Haro, Sebastian (2014) Emergence in Holographic Scenarios for Gravity. [Preprint]

Dimitrijević, Dejan R. (2019) Causal closure of the physical, mental causation, and physics. [Preprint]

Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2010) Confirmation and Reduction: A Bayesian Account. [Preprint]

Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2010) Who's Afraid of Nagelian Reduction? [Preprint]

Dorst, Chris (2023) Does the Best System Need the Past Hypothesis? [Preprint]

Dougherty, John and Callender, Craig (2016) Black Hole Thermodynamics: More Than an Analogy? [Preprint]

Doyle, Yannick and Egan, Spencer and Graham, Noah and Kareem Khalifa, Kareem (2018) Non-Factive Understanding: A Statement and Defense. [Preprint]

Dulani, Saakshi (2024) Black Hole Paradoxes: A Unified Framework for Information Loss. [Preprint]

Edens, Bram (2001) Semigroups and Symmetry: an investigation of Prigogine's theories. [Preprint]

Ehmann, Alexander (2022) Reducing Thermodynamics to Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics: The Case of Macro Values. [Preprint]

Elga, Adam (2005) Isolation and folk physics. [Preprint]

Esfeld, Michael (2005) Popper on irreversibility and the arrow of time. [Preprint]

Evans, Peter W. and Milburn, Gerard J. and Shrapnel, Sally (2021) Causal asymmetry from the perspective of a causal agent. [Preprint]

Evans, Peter W. and Milburn, Gerard J. and Shrapnel, Sally (2023) How clocks define physical time. [Preprint]

Farr, Matt (2020) C-theories of time: On the adirectionality of time. [Preprint]

Farr, Matt (2021) Conventionalism about time direction. [Preprint]

Farr, Matt (2021) What's so special about initial conditions? Understanding the past hypothesis in directionless time. [Preprint]

Feintzeig, Benjamin H. (2017) Deduction and Definability in Infinite Statistical Systems. [Preprint]

Fenton-Glynn, Luke (2014) Unsharp Best System Chances. [Preprint]

Fernandes, Alison (2022) How to Explain the Direction of Time. [Preprint]

Fernandes, Alison (2013) Time, Flies, and Why We Can't Control the Past. [Preprint]

Filomeno, Aldo (2023) How bad is the postulation of a low entropy initial state of the universe? [Preprint]

Filomeno, Aldo (2021) Typicality of Dynamics and Laws of Nature. [Preprint]

Fletcher, Samuel C. (2019) Modality in Physics. [Preprint]

Franklin, Alexander (2021) How the Reductionist Should Respond to the Multiscale Argument, and What This Tells Us About Levels. [Preprint]

Franklin, Alexander (2017) On the Renormalisation Group Explanation of Universality. [Preprint]

Franklin, Alexander and Robertson, Katie (2021) Emerging into the Rainforest: Emergence and Special Science Ontology. [Preprint]

Fraser, Doreen (2012) SSB: QSM vs. QFT. [Preprint]

Fraser, Doreen (2018) The development of renormalization group methods for particle physics: Formal analogies between classical statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2008) A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2007) Probability in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2007) Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2009) Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2012) What is Statistical Mechanics? [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2011) Explaining Thermodynamic-Like Behaviour In Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2020) Boltzmannian Non-Equilibrium and Local Variables. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2017) Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2017) Equilibrium in Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Gao, Shan (2023) Is decoherence necessary for the emergence of many worlds? [Preprint]

Gao, Shan (2022) Nature abhors redundancies: A no-go result for density matrix realism. [Preprint]

Gao, Shan (2022) On the Initial State of the Universe. [Preprint]

Gao, Shan (2021) Time's Arrow Points to Many Worlds. [Preprint]

Gao, Shan (2018) Why protective measurement establishes the reality of the wave function. [Preprint]

Gijsbers, Victor (2004) The contingent law: A tale of Maxwell's Demon. [Preprint]

Glynn, Luke (2013) Is There High-Level Causation? [Preprint]

Glynn, Luke and Dardashti, Radin and Thebault, Karim P Y and Frisch, Mathias (2013) Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart. [Preprint]

Goddiksen, Mads (2014) Explanatory standards in biology and physics textbooks: The case of polymers. [Preprint]

Gomori, Marton and Gyenis, Balazs and Hofer-Szabó, Gábor (2017) How macrostates come about? [Preprint]

Gryb, Sean and Palacios, Patricia and Thebault, Karim P Y (2019) On the Universality of Hawking Radiation. [Preprint]

Gryb, Sean and Palacios, Patricia and Thebault, Karim P Y (2019) On the Universality of Hawking Radiation. [Preprint]

Guo, Bixin (2020) Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Gyenis, Balazs (2017) Maxwell and the normal distribution: A colored story of probability, independence, and tendency toward equilibrium. [Preprint]

Hasse, Hans and Lenhard, Johannes (2016) Boon and Bane: On the role of Adjustable Parameters in Simulation Models. [Preprint]

Heartspring, William (2019) A Bayesian theory of quantum gravity without gravitons. [Preprint]

Hemmo, Meir (2020) Is the Mentaculus the Best System of Our World? [Preprint]

Hemmo, Meir and Shenker, Orly R. (2010) Probability and Typicality in Deterministic Physics. [Preprint]

Hoehn, Philipp (2017) Reflections on the information paradigm in quantum and gravitational physics. [Preprint]

Hubert, Mario (2021) Reviving Frequentism. [Preprint]

Huggett, Nick (2002) Quarticles and the Identity of Indiscernibles. [Preprint]

Huggett, Nick (2014) Reading the Past in the Present. [Preprint]

Jhun, Jennifer and Palacios, Patricia and Weatherall, James Owen (2017) Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena? Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Econophysics. [Preprint]

Jodoin, Laurent (2020) A Justification of the Probabilistic Explanation of the Entropy Principle. [Preprint]

Kastner, R. E. and Schlatter, Andreas (2023) A Note on Landauer's Principle. [Preprint]

Kastner, Ruth (2017) On Quantum Non-Unitarity as a Basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Kastner, Ruth and Schlatter, Andreas (2023) Entropy cost of "Erasure" in Physically Irreversible Processes. [Preprint]

Kiessling, Michael K.-H. (2019) The influence of gravity on the Boltzmann entropy of a closed universe. [Preprint]

Knox, Eleanor (2012) Abstraction and its Limits: Finding Space for Novel Explanation. [Preprint]

Koberinski, Adam and Smeenk, Chris (2023) Philosophical Issues in Early Universe Cosmology. [Preprint]

Kuehn, Reimer and Lavis, David and Frigg, Roman (2021) Becoming Large, Becoming Infinite: The Anatomy of Thermal Physics and Phase Transitions in Finite Systems. [Preprint]

Ladyman, James and Presnell, Stuart and Short, Anthony J. (2006) The Use of the Information Theoretic Entropy in Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Ladyman, James and Presnell, Stuart and Short, Anthony J. and Groisman, Berry (2006) The Connection between Logical and Thermodynamic Irreversibility. [Preprint]

Lavis, David (2007) Boltzmann, Gibbs and the Concept of Equilibrium. [Preprint]

Lavis, David (2017) The Problem of Equilibrium Processes in Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Lavis, David A. (2019) The Question of Negative Temperatures in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Lazarovici, Dustin and Reichert, Paula (2014) Typicality, Irreversibility and the Status of Macroscopic Laws. [Preprint]

Lazarovici, Dustin (2018) On Boltzmann vs. Gibbs and the Equilibrium in Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Linford, Daniel (2020) Big Bounce or Double Bang? A Reply to Craig & Sinclair on the Interpretation of Bounce Cosmologies. [Preprint]

Linford, Daniel (2021) Neo-Lorentzian Relativity and the Beginning of the Universe. [Preprint]

Liu, Chuang and Emch, Gerard G. (2004) Explaining Quantum Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. [Preprint]

Loew, Christian (2016) Boltzmannian Immortality. [Preprint]

Loew, Christian (2017) Fundamentality and Time’s Arrow. [Preprint]

Lorenzetti, Lorenzo (2024) Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Lorenzetti, Lorenzo (2024) Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics. [Preprint]

Maroney, Owen (2007) Does a computer have an arrow of time? [Preprint]

Maroney, Owen (2009) Thermodynamic Constraints on Fluctuation Phenomena. [Preprint]

Marsland III, Robert and Brown, Harvey R. and Valente, Giovanni (2014) Ambiguities in order-theoretic formulations of thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Mason, Lucy (2023) A Non-Idealised Account of Records. [Preprint]

Menon, Tarun and Callender, Craig (2011) Turn and Face the Strange... Ch-ch-changes: Philosophical Questions Raised by Phase Transitions. [Preprint]

Michael, Stöltzner (2002) Vienna Indeterminism II: From Exner's Synthesis to Frank and von Mises. [Preprint]

Morita, Kohei (2023) A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2010) Deterministic Laws and Epistemic Chances. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2014) Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2012) Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics: What are they? [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2011) Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: A Maxwellian View. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2019) Explaining Thermodynamics: What remains to be done? [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2019) “— It would be possible to do a lengthy dialectical number on this;”. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2021) On the Relation of the Laws of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2020) The Science of ΘΔcs. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2021) Shakin' All Over: Proving Landauer's principle without neglect of fluctuations. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. (2016) Steps on the Way to Equilibrium. [Preprint]

Myrvold, Wayne C. and Norton, John D. (2023) On Norton’s “…Shook…” and Myrvold’s “Shakin’ …”. [Preprint]

Norsen, Travis (2010) Scientific Cumulativity and Conceptual Change: The Case of 'Temperature'. [Preprint]

North, Jill (2010) An Empirical Approach to Symmetry and Probability. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2011) Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2005) Atoms, Entropy, Quanta: Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2013) Brownian Computation is Thermodynamically Irreversible. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2004) Eaters of the Lotus: Landauer's Principle and the Return of Maxwell's Demon. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2007) Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905: The Thermodynamic Grounding of Light Quanta. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2012) Infinite Idealizations. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2014) The Simplest Exorcism of Maxwell's Demon: The Quantum Version. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2011) Waiting for Landauer. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2022) How Analogy Helped Create the New Science of Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2016) How Einstein Did Not Discover. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2016) The Impossible Process: Thermodynamic Reversibility. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2017) Maxwell's Demon Does Not Compute. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2016) Thermodynamically Reversible Processes in Statistical Physics. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2019) Weeding Landauer's Garden. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2015) You are not a Boltzmann brain. [Preprint]

Oikonomou, Thomas and Bagci, Gokhan B (2013) Clausius versus Sackur-Tetrode entropies. [Preprint]

Okon, Elias and Sudarsky, Daniel (2016) A (not so?) novel explanation for the very special initial state of the universe. [Preprint]

Oldofredi, Andrea and Lazarovici, Dustin and Deckert, Dirk-André and Esfeld, Michael (2016) From the universe to subsystems: Why quantum mechanics appears more stochastic than classical mechanics. [Preprint]

Oldofredi, Andrea and Öttinger, Hans Christian (2020) The Dissipative Approach to Quantum Field Theory: Conceptual Foundations and Ontological Implications. [Preprint]

Palacios, Patricia (2017) Phase Transitions: A Challenge for Reductionism? [Preprint]

Palacios, Patricia (2017) Phase Transitions: A Challenge for Reductionism? [Preprint]

Palacios, Patricia and Colombo, Matteo (2021) Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Free Energy Principle in Biology. [Preprint]

Park, Brett (2023) Causation Beyond Manipulation. [Preprint]

Parker, Daniel (2009) The H-Theorem, Molecular Disorder and Probability: Perspectives from Boltzmann’s Lectures on Gas Theory. [Preprint]

Parker, Daniel (2011) Information-Theoretic Statistical Mechanics Without Landauer's Principle. [Preprint]

Pietsch, Wolfgang (2016) Causal Interpretations of Probability. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2022) What Represents Space-time? And What Follows for Substantivalism vs. Relationalism and Gravitational Energy? [Preprint]

Podnieks, Karlis (2010) The Limits of Modeling. [Preprint]

Price, Huw (2011) Does Time-Symmetry Imply Retrocausality? How the Quantum World Says "Maybe". [Preprint]

Price, Huw (2005) Recent Work on the Arrow of Radiation. [Preprint]

Price, Huw and Weslake, Brad (2008) The Time-Asymmetry of Causation. [Preprint]

Punin, Peter (2016) Group-theoretic Atemporality in Physics and its Boundaries (Another look at reversibility, irreversibility, and their philosophical implications). [Preprint]

ROVELLI, Carlo (2015) Is Time’s Arrow Perspectival? [Preprint]

ROVELLI, Carlo (2013) Relative information at the foundation of physics (Second prize in the 2013 FQXi context "It From Bit or Bit From It?"). [Preprint]

ROVELLI, Carlo (2020) Agency in Physics. [Preprint]

ROVELLI, Carlo (2022) Back to Reichenbach. [Preprint]

ROVELLI, Carlo (2020) Memory and Entropy. [Preprint]

ROVELLI, Carlo (2021) The numerous and profoundly distinct layers that make up the notion of time. [Preprint]

Ramstead, Maxwell J. D. and Kirchhoff, Michael D. and Friston, Karl J. (2019) A tale of two densities: Active inference is enactive inference. [Preprint]

Ramstead, Maxwell J. D. and Wiese, Wanja and Miller, Mark and Friston, Karl J. (2020) Deep neurophenomenology: An active inference account of some features of conscious experience and of their disturbance in major depressive disorder. [Preprint]

Reutlinger, Alexander (2014) Are Causal Facts Really Explanatorily Emergent? Ladyman and Ross on Higher-level Causal Facts and Renormalization Group Explanation. [Preprint]

Reutlinger, Alexander (2013) Can Interventionists be Neo-Russellians? Interventionism, the Open Systems Argument and the Arrow of Entropy. [Preprint]

Reutlinger, Alexander (2016) Do Renormalization Group Explanations Conform to the Commonality Strategy? [Preprint]

Reutlinger, Alexander (2015) Is There A Monist Theory of Causal and Non-Causal Explanations? The Counterfactual Theory of Scientific Explanation. [Preprint]

Rickles, Dean and Elshatlawy, Hatem and Arsiwalla, Xerxes (2023) Ruliology: Linking Computation, Observers and Physical Law. [Preprint]

Roberts, Bryan W. (2023) Does thermodynamics have a reversibility problem? [Preprint]

Robertson, Katie (2020) In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Robertson, Katie (2018) Stars and steam engines: to what extent do thermodynamics and statistical mechanics apply to self-gravitating systems? [Preprint]

Rosaler, Joshua (2015) Interpretation Neutrality in the Classical Domain of Quantum Theory. [Preprint]

Rosinger, Elemer Elad (2009) Aspects of Information in Physics. [Preprint]

Ryder, Dominic J. (2022) Directed Temporal Asymmetry from Scale Invariant Dynamics: Is the Problem of Time’s Arrow Solved? [Preprint]

Saatsi, Juha and Reutlinger, Alexander (2017) Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Anti-Reductionist Argument from Infinite Limits. [Preprint]

Saunders, Simon (2006) Are quantum particles objects? [Preprint]

Saunders, Simon (2000) Tense and Indeterminateness. [Preprint]

Saunders, Simon (2020) The Concept 'Indistinguishable'. [Preprint]

Saunders, Simon (2013) Indistinguishability. [Preprint]

Serafino, Loris (2019) DEMYSTIFYING LANFORD’S THEOREM. [Preprint]

Serafino, Loris (2017) The enigma of irreversibility and the interplay between Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy. [Preprint]

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla and Moore, Cristopher (2003) What Is a Macrostate? Subjective Observations and Objective Dynamics. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. (2000) Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics: Some Philosophical Remarks. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. (2000) Logic and Entropy. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Prediction and retrodiction in Boltzmann's approach to classical statistical mechanics. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2004) Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium (II). [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2001) Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium (Part 1). [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly and Hemmo, Meir (2021) The Multiple-Computations Theorem and the physics of singling out a computation. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Maxwell's Demon. [Preprint]

Sheridan, Erin (2020) A Man Misunderstood: Von Neumann did not claim that his entropy corresponds to the phenomenological thermodynamic entropy. [Preprint]

Short, Tony and Ladyman, James and Groisman, Berry and Presnell, Stuart (2005) The Connection between Logical and Thermodynamical Irreversibility. [Preprint]

Shrapnel, Sally and Evans, Peter W. and Milburn, Gerard J. (2023) Stepping down from mere appearance: Modelling the 'actuality' of time. [Preprint]

Silagadze, Zurab (2007) Maxwell's demon through the looking glass. [Preprint]

Skow, Bradford (2011) Does Temperature Have a Metric Structure? [Preprint]

Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel (2022) Does quantum mechanics require "conspiracy"? [Preprint]

Stradis, Athamos (2021) Memory, the Fork Asymmetry, and the Initial State. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2009) PROBABILITIES, CAUSES AND PROPENSITIES IN PHYSICS (SYNTHESE LIBRARY, SPRINGER). CHAPTERS 0 & 1 (CONTENTS & INTRODUCTION). [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio and Bolinska, Agnes (2021) Informative Models: Idealization and Abstraction. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio and Bolinska, Agnes (2021) Informative Models: Idealization and Abstraction. [Preprint]

Swanson, Noel (2020) Can Quantum Thermodynamics Save Time? [Preprint]

Tesic, Marko (2017) Confirmation and the Generalized Nagel-Schaffner Model of Reduction: A Bayesian Analysis. [Preprint]

Thebault, Karim P Y and Bradley, Seamus and Reutlinger, Alexander (2015) Modelling Inequality. [Preprint]

Thebault, Karim P Y (2016) What Can We Learn From Analogue Experiments? [Preprint]

Torretti, Roberto (2006) Can science advance effectively through philosophical criticism and reflection? [Preprint]

Uchii, Soshichi (1999) Theory Reduction: the case of the kinetic theory of gases. [Preprint]

Uffink, Jos (2001) Bluff your Way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Uffink, Jos (2006) Compendium of the foundations of classical statistical physics. [Preprint]

Valentini, Antony (2019) Foundations of statistical mechanics and the status of the Born rule in de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory. [Preprint]

Vaughan, Martin P (2020) The Concept of Entropic Time: A Preliminary Discussion. [Preprint]

Versteegh, Marijn A.M. and Dieks, Dennis (2010) The Gibbs Paradox and the Distinguishability of Identical Particles. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2012) The Arrow of Time in Physics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2009) Gravity, entropy, and cosmology: in search of clarity. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2001) Implications of quantum theory in the foundations of statistical mechanics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2013) Inferential vs. Dynamical Conceptions of Physics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2011) The Logic of the Past Hypothesis. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2013) Probability in physics: stochastic, statistical, quantum. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2013) Recurrence Theorems: a Unified Account. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2013) Thermodynamics as Control Theory. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2013) What statistical mechanics actually does. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2022) A Bayesian analysis of self-undermining arguments in physics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2017) The Case for Black Hole Thermodynamics, Part I: Phenomenological Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2017) The Case for Black Hole Thermodynamics, Part II: Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2019) Naturalness and Emergence. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2018) The Necessity of Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2023) On relativistic temperature. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2016) Probability and Irreversibility in Modern Statistical Mechanics: Classical and Quantum. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2018) Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite Quantum Systems: a decoherent-histories approach. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2023) Thermodynamics with and without irreversibility. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2017) Why Black Hole Information Loss is Paradoxical. [Preprint]

Wallace, David (2023) The local quantum vacuum as the Past Hypothesis. [Preprint]

Weaver, Christopher (2020) In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

Weinert, Friedel (2008) Minkowski Space-time and Thermodynamics. [Preprint]

Weinert, Friedel (2023) Reichenbach’s ‘Causal’ Theory of Time: A Re-Assessment. [Preprint]

Weinstein, Steven (2003) Objectivity, information, and Maxwell's demon. [Preprint]

Weinstein, Galina (2023) Debating the Reliability and Robustness of the Learned Hamiltonian in the Traversable Wormhole Experiment. [Preprint]

Weinstein, Galina (2022) Maxwell’s demon and impossibility statements: Einstein on perpetuum mobile of the second kind. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte (2009) Justifying Definitions in Mathematics—Going Beyond Lakatos. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte (2013) Justifying Typicality Measures of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte (2011) On Choosing Between Deterministic and Indeterministic Models: Underdetermination and Indirect Evidence. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2012) Demystifying Typicality. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2015) Reconceptualising equilibrium in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics and characterising its existence. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2016) Boltzmannian Equilibrium in Stochastic Systems. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2017) Mind the Gap: Boltzmannian versus Gibbsian Equilibrium. [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2016) When Does a Boltzmannian Equilibrium Exist? [Preprint]

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2020) When do Gibbsian Phase Averages and Boltzmannian Equilibrium Values Agree? [Preprint]

Wills, James (2020) Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely. [Preprint]

Wu, Jingyi (2021) Explaining Universality: Infinite Limit Systems in the Renormalization Group Method. [Preprint]

Wuthrich, Christian (2017) Are black holes about information? [Preprint]

Yaghmaie, Aboutorab (2012) Reflexive, Symmetric and Transitive Scientific Representations. [Preprint]

Yee, Adrian K. (2021) Econophysics (Making Sense of a Chimera). [Preprint]

valiaallori, Valia (2020) Some Reflections on the Statistical Postulate: Typicality, Probability and Explanation between Deterministic and Indeterministic Theories. [Preprint]

van Lith, Janneke (2001) Ergodic Theory, Interpretations of Probability and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. [Preprint]

van Lith, Janneke (2001) Essay Review: Probability in Classical Statistical Physics. [Preprint]

Conference or Workshop Item

Abrams, Marshall (2009) Toward a Mechanistic Interpretation of Probability. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Ardourel, Vincent (2016) Irreversibility in the derivation of the Boltzmann equation. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Batterman, Robert (2006) Reduction and Renormalization. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Chiribella, Giulio and Scandolo, Carlo Maria (2015) Entanglement and thermodynamics in general probabilistic theories. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Chua, Eugene (2022) T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Davey, Kevin (2008) What is Gibb's Canonical Distribution? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Elay, Shech (2012) What is the “Paradox of Phase Transitions?”. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Fenton-Glynn, Luke (2014) Ceteris Paribus Laws and Minutis Rectis Laws. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Franklin, Alexander (2018) Universality Reduced. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Fraser, Doreen (2022) Justifying the use of purely formal analogies in physics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Frisch, Mathias (2010) From Arbuthnot to Boltzmann: The Past-hypothesis, Special Sciences and the Best System. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Imbert, Cyrille (2014) Realism about the complexity of physical systems without realist commitments to their scientific representations: How to get the advantages of theft without honest toil. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Jones, Nicholaos and Coffey, Kevin (2006) Synopsis of the Robert and Sarah Boote Conference in Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism in Physics. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Kay, Bernard S. (2015) Entropy and Quantum Gravity. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Kuhlmann, Meinard (2006) How Do Microscopic Models of Financial Markets Explain? In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Norton, John D. (2013) The End of the Thermodynamics of Computation: A No Go Result. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Norton, John D. (2016) The Worst Thought Experiment. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Parker, Daniel (2011) On an Unbelievably Short Proof of the Second Law. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Parker, Daniel (2005) Thermodynamic Irreversibility: Does the Big Bang Explain what it Purports to Explain? In: UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Reutlinger, Alexander (2013) Why Is There Universal Macro-Behavior? Renormalization Group Explanation As Non-causal Explanation. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Shenker, Orly R. (2016) A reductive physicalist account of the autonomy of psychology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Sklar, Lawrence (2006) Varieties of Explanatory Autonomy. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Tamir, Michael (2012) Geodesic Universality in General Relativity. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Werndl, Charlotte (2011) Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions and the Role of Different Observations. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2014) Rethinking Boltzmannian Equilibrium. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Winsberg, Eric (2002) Laws and Statistical Mechanics. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Zwier, Karen R. (2016) Interventionist Causation in Thermodynamics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

de Regt, Henk W. (2006) Modelling Molecules: Beyond the Epistemic-Pragmatic Dichotomy. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Published Article or Volume

Anta, Javier (2021) The epistemic schism of statistical mechanics. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 36 (3). pp. 399-419. ISSN 2171-679X

Ardourel, Vincent and Bangu, Sorin (2023) Finite-size scaling theory: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical phenomena. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 100. pp. 99-106. ISSN 00393681

Badino, Massimiliano (2011) Mechanistic Slumber vs. Statistical Insomnia: The early phase of Boltzmann's H-theorem (1868-1877). European Physical Journal - H, 36 (3). pp. 353-378.

Baker, David John (2015) Review of David Albert, After Physics. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Batterman, Robert (2016) Philosophical Implications of Kadanoff's work on the Renormalization Group. Journal of Statistical Physics.

Bitbol, Michel (2002) Form and actuality. M. Mugur-Schächter & A. Van der Merwe (eds.), Quantum mechanics, mathematics, cognition and action. pp. 389-430. ISSN 978-0-306-48144-4

Butterfield, Jeremy (2013) Reduction, Emergence and Renormalization. The Journal of Philosophy, 111 (1). pp. 5-49. ISSN 0022-362X

Caprara, Sergio and Vulpiani, Angelo (2016) Chaos and Stochastic Models in Physics: Ontic and Epistemic Aspects. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 25. pp. 133-146. ISSN 2192-6255

Charlotte, Werndl (2011) On the Observational Equivalence of Continuous-Time Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1 (2). pp. 193-225.

Chen, Eddy Keming (2018) Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72 (4). ISSN 1464-3537

Chen, Eddy Keming (2021) Time's Arrow and Self-Locating Probability. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Chen, Eddy Keming and Goldstein, Sheldon (2022) Governing Without A Fundamental Direction of Time: Minimal Primitivism about Laws of Nature. Ben-Menahem, Y. (eds.). Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature. pp. 21-64.

Chiribella, Giulio and Scandolo, Carlo Maria (2015) Operational axioms for diagonalizing states. EPTCS, 195. pp. 96-115.

De Haro, Sebastian (2019) Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences. European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

Dieks, Dennis and van Dongen, Jeroen and de Haro, Sebastian (2015) Emergence in Holographic Scenarios for Gravity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198

Duerr, Detlef and Struyve, Ward (2020) Typicality in the Foundations of Statistical Physics and Born's Rule. pp. 35-44.

Filomeno, Aldo (2023) How bad is the postulation of a low entropy initial state of the universe?

Filomeno, Aldo (2019) Stable regularities without governing laws? Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198

Franklin, Alexander and Knox, Eleanor (2018) Emergence Without Limits: the Case of Phonons. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198

Fraser, James D. (2016) Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite Systems. Philosophy of Science, 83. pp. 585-605.

Frigg, Roman (2008) Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. Philosophy of Science , 75 (5). pp. 670-681.

Frigg, Roman (2010) Probability in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. Time, Chance and Reduction. Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics. (Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.)). pp. 92-118.

Frigg, Roman (2010) Why Typicality Does Not Explain the Approach to Equilibrium. Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics (Mauricio Suárez (ed.)). pp. 77-93.

Frigg, Roman and Hoefer, Carl (2010) Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective.

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2018) Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2022) Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics. pp. 403-413. ISSN 9780367769611

Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2019) Statistical Mechanics:A Tale of Two Theories. The Monist. pp. 424-438.

Glynn, Luke (2010) Deterministic Chance. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 61 (1). pp. 51-80.

Hemmo, Meir and Shenker, Orly R. (2020) Maxwell’s Demon in Quantum Mechanics. Entropy, 22. p. 269. ISSN 1099-4300

Jodoin, Laurent (2014) Génétique des populations et mécanique statistique : stratégie explicative et analogie formelle. Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 1 (1). pp. 12-25. ISSN 2295-8029

Ladyman, James and Robertson, Katie (2013) Landauer Defended: Reply to Norton. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198

Lazarovici, Dustin and Reichert, Paula (2020) Arrow(s) of Time without a Past Hypothesis.

Linford, Daniel (2020) The Kalam Cosmological Argument Meets The Mentaculus. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

List, Christian and Pivato, Marcus (2015) Emergent Chance. Philosophical Review, 124 (1). pp. 119-152.

Liu, Chuang (2018) Infinte Idealization and Contextual Realism. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Mainwood, Paul (2006) Is More Different? Emergent Properties in Physics.

McCoy, C.D. (2020) An Alternative Interpretation of Statistical Mechanics. Erkenntnis, 85 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0165-0106

McCoy, C.D. (2020) Interpretive Analogies Between Quantum and Statistical Mechanics. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10. ISSN 1879-4912

North, Jill (2011) Time in Thermodynamics. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time. pp. 312-350.

Pernu, Tuomas K. (2017) Can physics make us free? Frontiers in Physics, 5:64.

Pitts, J. Brian (2022) On Two Slights to Noether's First Theorem: Mental Causation and General Relativity. Rethinking the Concept of Laws of Nature: Natural Order in the Light of Contemporary Science.

Rodriguez, Quentin (2021) Idealizations and analogies: Explaining critical phenomena. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 89. pp. 235-247. ISSN 00393681

Rosaler, Joshua (2015) Interpretation Neutrality in the Classical Domain of Quantum Theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 53. pp. 54-72. ISSN 1355-2198

Saunders, Simon (2021) Branch-counting in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477.

Saunders, Simon (2018) The Gibbs Paradox. Entropy, 20 (8). p. 552.

Shan, Gao (2011) Is Gravity an Entropic Force?

Thyssen, Pieter and Wenmackers, Sylvia (2020) Degrees of freedom. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Weinert, Friedel (2013) Temporal Arrows in Space-Time. Kairos, 8. pp. 13-44. ISSN ISSN (on-line): 1647-659X ISSN (print): 2182-2824

Weinstein, Steven (2012) Patterns in the Fabric of Nature. Foundational Questions Institute (FQXI).

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2021) Ehrenfest and Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa on Why Boltzmannian and Gibbsian Calculations Agree. The Legacy of Tatjana Afanassjewa. Philosophical Insights from the Work of an Original Physicist and Mathematician.

Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2020) Taming Abundance: on the Relation between Boltzmannian and Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics. Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism and Laws of Nature. pp. 617-646.

Wilhelm, Isaac (2019) Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanations. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537

de Haro, Sebastian (2015) Dualities and Emergent Gravity: Gauge/Gravity Duality.

Open Access Book

Roberts, Bryan W. (2022) Reversing the Arrow of Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-009-12332-7

Other

Bub, Jeffrey (2000) Maxwell's Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Fernandes, Alison (2020) Evidence-Based Science. UNSPECIFIED.

Frigg, Roman (2003) In What Sense is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? - Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory. UNSPECIFIED.

Frisch, Mathias (2007) Does a Low-Entropy Constraint Prevent Us from Influencing the Past? UNSPECIFIED.

Leeds, Stephen (2010) Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics. UNSPECIFIED.

Liu, Chuang (2001) Approximations, Idealizations, and Models in Statistical Mechanics. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Liu, Chuang (2002) The Meaning of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (I): From a simple classical model. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Liu, Chuang (2002) Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (II): Variations in Complex Models. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Myrvold, Wayne C. and Albert, David Z. and Callender, Craig and Ismael, Jenann (2016) Book Symposium: David Albert, After Physics. UNSPECIFIED.

North, Jill (2003) Understanding the Time-Asymmetry of Radiation. UNSPECIFIED.

North, Jill (2002) What is the Problem about the Time-Asymmetry of Thermodynamics?--A Reply to Price. UNSPECIFIED.

Pniower, Justin (2005) Particles, Objects, and Physics. UNSPECIFIED.

Roberts, John T. (2009) Laws About Frequencies. UNSPECIFIED.

Saunders, Simon (2000) Space-Time and Probability. UNSPECIFIED.

Saunders, Simon (1997) Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability. UNSPECIFIED.

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy. UNSPECIFIED.

Vaas, Ruediger (2006) Dark Energy And Life's Ultimate Future. UNSPECIFIED.

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