Typicality reasoning in probability, physics, and metaphysics / Dustin Lazarovici.
Lazarovici, Dustin, 1985- author.
2023
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Title Typicality reasoning in probability, physics, and metaphysics / Dustin Lazarovici.
Author Lazarovici, Dustin, 1985- author.
ISBN 9783031334481 (electronic bk.)
3031334485 (electronic bk.)
3031334477
9783031334474
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33448-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-33448-1 doi
Call Number QC6
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.01
Summary This book provides a comprehensive investigation into the concept of typicality and its significance for physics and the philosophy of science. It identifies typicality as a fundamental way of reasoning, central to how natural laws explain and are tested against phenomena. The book discusses various applications of typicality to foundational questions in physics and beyond.These include: a unified interpretation of objective probabilities in classical mechanics and quantum mechanics a detailed discussion of Boltzmann's statistical mechanics, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics a novel account of the asymmetry of causation and the arrow of time Finally, the book turns to the question: "What are laws of nature"? It argues that typicality extends to a powerful way of reasoning in metaphysics that can and should inform our commitments about the fundamental ontology of the world. On this basis, it develops an argument against the Humean best system account, according to which laws of nature are merely an efficient summary of contingent regularities. Dustin Lazarovici studied physics and mathematics at the University of Munich. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Munich and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Lausanne. He is currently an Assistant Professor for philosophy of physics and philosophy of science at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
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Series New directions in the philosophy of science.
Available in Other Form TYPICALITY REASONING IN PROBABILITY, PHYSICS, AND METAPHYSICS.
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1. Introduction
Part I: Probability
2. Typicality in Probability Theory
3. Cournots Principle
4. A Typicality Theory of Probability
5. The Mentaculus: Typicality versus Humean Chances
6. The Structure of Typicality
Part II: Physics
7. From the Universe to Subsystems
8. Boltzmanns Statistical Mechanics
9. Its Complicated: The Relationship of Physics and Mathematics
10. Boltzmann Equation and the H-theorem.-11. Past Hypothesis and the Arrow of Time.-12. Causality and the Arrow of Time.-13. Quantum Mechanics
Part III: Beyond Physics.-14. Other Applications of Typicality.-15. Special Science Laws.-16. Typicality and the Metaphysics of Laws
Appendix A Time-reversal Invariance
Appendix B Proof of Theorems.

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