Frigg, Roman (2008) Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. Philosophy of Science , 75 (5). pp. 670-681.
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Abstract
In two recent papers Barry Loewer (2001, 2004) has suggested to interpret probabilities in statistical mechanics as Humean chances in David Lewis’ (1994) sense. I first give a precise formulation of this proposal, then raise two fundamental objections, and finally conclude that these can be overcome only at the price of interpreting these probabilities epistemically.
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| Keywords: | Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Roman Frigg | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2014 17:37 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2014 22:25 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11215 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/594513 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics | ||||||
| Date: | 2008 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 670-681 | ||||||
| Volume: | 75 | ||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11215 |
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