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I give a brief account of the way in which thermodynamics and statistical mechanics actually work as contemporary scientific theories, and in particular of what statistical mechanics contributes to th...
Justifying Typicality Measures of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems
typicality probability Boltzmann statistical mechanics dynamical systems ergodic epsilon-ergodic translation-continuous translation-close
2016/6/15
A popular view in contemporary Boltzmannian statistical mechanics is to interpret the measures as typicality measures. In dynamical systems theory measures can similarly be interpreted as typicality m...
Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics:What are they?
Statistical mechanics thermodynamics probability chance method of arbitrary functions
2016/5/30
This paper addresses the question of how we should regard the probability distributions introduced into statistical mechanics. It will be argued that it is problematic to take them either as purely on...
Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics
Typicality probability Boltzmann approach to equilibrium non-equilibrium
2009/3/27
Systems prepared in a non-equilibrium state approach, and eventually reach, equilibrium. Why do they do so? An important contemporary version of the Boltzmannian approach to statistical mechanics answ...
Prediction and retrodiction in Boltzmann's approach to classical statistical mechanics
thermodynamics statistical mechanics second law
2008/4/22
In this paper we address two problems in Boltzmann's approach to statistical mechanics. The first is the justification of the probabilistic predictions of the theory. And the second is the inadequacy ...
According to a standard view of the second law of thermodynamics, our belief in the second law can be justified by pointing out that low entropy macrostates are less probable than high entropy macrost...
Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics: Some Philosophical Remarks
statistical mechanics entropy
2008/4/15
Interventionism is an approach to the foundations of statistical mechanics which says that to explain and predict some of the thermodynamic phenomena we need to take into account the inescapable effec...
Implications of quantum theory in the foundations of statistical mechanics
Statistical mechanics
2008/4/14
An investigation is made into how the foundations of
statistical mechanics are affected once we treat classical mechanics as an approximation to quantum mechanics in certain domains rather than as a ...
Approximations, Idealizations, and Models in Statistical Mechanics
approximation approbation laws of nature
2008/4/10
In this paper, a criticism of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization is given. After identifying the real purpose and measure of idealization in the practice of science, it is argu...
A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.
Statistical mechanics Boltzmann Gibbs probability
2008/4/9
This is an extensive review of recent work on the foundations of statistical mechanics.
Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences. Josef Loschmidt’s Contributions and Modern Developments in Structural Organic Chemistry,Atomistics, and Statistical Mechanics, ed. by W. Fleischhacker & T.Schönfeld, Plenum Press, New York, 1997, pp. 320 (ISBN 0-306-45684-2)
Physical Chemical Sciences Josef Loschmidt
2008/4/7
The long subtitle clarifies the scope and aims of the 33 contributions to the volume in honor of Josef Loschmidt (1821-1895), edited by Wilhelm Fleischhacker and Thomas Schönfeld from the Institu...
This paper explores some connections between competing conceptions of scientific laws on the one hand, and a problem in the foundations of statistical mechanics on the other. I examine two proposals f...