Athamos Stradis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Athamos Stradis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Athamos |
| FAMILY NAME | Stradis |
| SIGNATURE | STRADIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1836-7922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Global and Local Imperialism in Statistical Mechanics
Statistical mechanics applied on a universal scale (the Mentaculus) attaches probabilities to all possible events in the universe, far outstripping its local thermodynamic evidence base. This ‘imperialistic’ tendency is often criticised as requiring untenable dynamical choreography in phase space. However, I will argue that imperialistic issues arise even in local statistical mechanics; if we tolerate them here, we should tolerate them in the Men…
Present records of the Past Hypothesis
A striking feature of our world is that we only seem to have records of the past. To explain this ‘record asymmetry’, Albert and Loewer claim that the Past Hypothesis induces a narrow probability density over the world’s possible past macrohistories, but not its future macrohistories. Because we’re indirectly acquainted with this low-entropy initial macrostate, our observations of records allow us to exploit the associated narrow density to infer…
Backward Causation
According to David Albert, there are certain situations where we can cause events that lie in our past. In response to a well-known objection that we never observe backward causation, he argues that there are good reasons why we can’t tell when it obtains. However, I identify another difficulty with Albert’s view: at face value, it has the unattractive consequence that backward causation is not just possible, but rife. In this article, I show how…
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state
Why do we have records of the past and not the future? Entropic explanations for this ‘record asymmetry’ have been popular ever since Boltzmann. Foremost amongst these is Albert and Loewer’s account, which explains the record asymmetry using a low-entropy initial macrostate (the ‘Past Hypothesis’) plus an initial probability distribution. However, the details of how this initial state underpins the record asymmetry are not fully specified. In thi…
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state
Why do we have records of the past and not the future? Entropic explanations for this ‘record asymmetry’ have been popular ever since Boltzmann. Foremost amongst these is Albert and Loewer’s account, which explains the record asymmetry using a low-entropy initial macrostate (the ‘Past Hypothesis’) plus an initial probability distribution. However, the details of how this initial state underpins the record asymmetry are not fully specified. In thi…
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state
Why do we have records of the past and not the future? Entropic explanations for this ‘record asymmetry’ have been popular ever since Boltzmann. Foremost amongst these is Albert and Loewer’s account, which explains the record asymmetry using a low-entropy initial macrostate (the ‘Past Hypothesis’) plus an initial probability distribution. However, the details of how this initial state underpins the record asymmetry are not fully specified. In thi…
Backward Causation
According to David Albert, there are certain situations where we can cause events that lie in our past. In response to a well-known objection that we never observe backward causation, he argues that there are good reasons why we can’t tell when it obtains. However, I identify another difficulty with Albert’s view: at face value, it has the unattractive consequence that backward causation is not just possible, but rife. In this article, I show how…
Present records of the Past Hypothesis
A striking feature of our world is that we only seem to have records of the past. To explain this ‘record asymmetry’, Albert and Loewer claim that the Past Hypothesis induces a narrow probability density over the world’s possible past macrohistories, but not its future macrohistories. Because we’re indirectly acquainted with this low-entropy initial macrostate, our observations of records allow us to exploit the associated narrow density to infer…
Global and Local Imperialism in Statistical Mechanics
Statistical mechanics applied on a universal scale (the Mentaculus) attaches probabilities to all possible events in the universe, far outstripping its local thermodynamic evidence base. This ‘imperialistic’ tendency is often criticised as requiring untenable dynamical choreography in phase space. However, I will argue that imperialistic issues arise even in local statistical mechanics; if we tolerate them here, we should tolerate them in the Men…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Asymmetry (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy of language (2 works) · Philosophy of science (2 works) · Quantum mechanics (2 works)