Time and Chance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23394103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Z Albert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Time and Chance (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674020139 |
| OpenAlex | W4206976429 |
| Open Library | OL29569768M |
| ISBN | 9780674020139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 149 |
Chaos, Complexity, and Education · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Philosophy · Physics
Disappearing without a Trace
Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality
The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
Two accounts of laws and time
Typicality-based chance
On the Structural Distinction Between Entropy and Time in Dynamical Theories
On the Direction of Time
Back to the Present
The Contingency of Actuality
Locating Temporal Passage in a Block World
Constraint Accounts of Laws
The Nomic Likelihood Account of Laws
The Sooner the Better
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics
How Do We Observe Relational Observables
The Great Loop
Typicality and Minutis Rectis Laws
What's Wrong with Prepunishment
Global and Local Imperialism in Statistical Mechanics
Against Symmetry Fundamentalism
Big Bounce or Double Bang? A Reply to Craig and Sinclair on the Interpretation of Bounce Cosmologies
Who Shouldn’t Reduce Time’s Arrow
The Necessary Uniformity of Physical Probability
Hybrid Deference, Hybrid Chance
Difference-making and deterministic chance
The problem of nomological harmony
The Boltzmann Brains Puzzle
The simplicity of physical laws
Humean nomic essentialism
Absolution of a Causal Decision Theorist
From time asymmetry to quantum entanglement
The hierarchical grounding argument for a necessary being
Universe without a cause
The paradox of deterministic probabilities
Evil and the Quantum Multiverse
Causation and the Time-Asymmetry of Knowledge
We Will All Live Forever
The emergence of macroscopic regularity
Natural Law and Universality in the Philosophy of Biology
Causation
The closed future
Reconceptualising equilibrium in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics and characterising its existence
Theories of Causality in Analytic Philosophy
Episodic imagining, temporal experience, and beliefs about time
The Metaphysical Consequences of Counterfactual Skepticism
Similarity accounts of counterfactuals
Ceteris Paribus Laws and Minutis Rectis Laws
Causal decision theory, context, and determinism
Time's arrow and self‐locating probability
A Deliberative Approach to Causation
Boltzmann brains and cognitive instability
Against Counterfactual Miracles
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state
A challenge to the second law of thermodynamics from cognitive science and vice versa
A minimal metaphysics of thin-objects and nomic structure
Interactionist zombies
Interest relativism in the best system analysis of laws
Making best systems best for us
A subjectivist’s guide to deterministic chance
The metaphysical underdetermination of time-reversal invariance
Metaphysical laws and the directionality of grounding
How is the asymmetry between the open future and the fixed past to be characterized
Present records of the Past Hypothesis
Reviving frequentism
On A- and B-theoretic elements of branching spacetimes
Euclidean spacetime functionalism
A statistical analysis of luck
Can informational thermal physics explain the approach to equilibrium
Causation, physics, and fit
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics
No microphysical causation? No problem
How do causes depend on us? The many faces of perspectivalism
In defense of causal eliminativism
Conventionalism about time direction
Stars and steam engines
How to explain the direction of time
Finding temporal asymmetry within the many, many worlds of Everettian quantum mechanics
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium
The package deal account of laws and properties (PDA)
Reducing thermodynamics to Boltzmannian statistical mechanics
Cosmic inflation and the past hypothesis
Bohmian dispositions
Time travel and counterfactual asymmetry
Deterministic probability
Laws of Nature and Theory Choice
Quantum gravity, timelessness, and the folk concept of time
Tractability and laws
On the probabilistic character of irreducible mental causation
Humean time-reversal symmetry
Decoherence, branching, and the Born rule in a mixed-state Everettian multiverse
A Justification of the Probabilistic Explanation of the Entropy Principle
How to Reconcile Physicalism and Antireductionism about Biology
The Aharonov Approach to Equilibrium
Szilard's Perpetuum Mobile
Two Views on Time Reversal
Quantum Mechanics as Classical Physics
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Chance in a Classical World
Can Conditioning on the “Past Hypothesis” Militate Against the Reversibility Objections
Remarks on the Direction of Time in Quantum Mechanics
Two Approaches to Reduction
| Unique citing works | 149 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,21 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 148 |