What is ‘The Problem of the Direction of Time’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10707983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Callender (0000-0002-9192-0018, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | S4 |
| Pages | S223-S234 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/392602 |
| OpenAlex | W1999723211 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper searches for an explicit expression of the so-called problem of the direction of time. I argue that the traditional version of the problem is an artifact of a mistaken view in the foundations of statistical mechanics, and that to the degree it is a problem, it is really one general to all the special sciences. I then search the residue of the traditional problem for any remaining difficulty particular to time's arrow and find that there is a special puzzle for some types of scientific realist
Arrow · Arrow of time · Artifact (error) · Calculus (dental) · Degree (music) · Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Mathematical economics · Physics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mathematics · NMR spectroscopy and applications · Philosophy · Protein Structure and Dynamics · Theoretical and Computational Physics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2022 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |