9780521558815 - Physics and Chance Paperback: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics von Sklar, Lawrence (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. xiii, 437 pp., Paperback, minor sticker residue to front cover else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. X, 437 Pp. First Printing Of First Softcover Edition,(First Published In Hardcover In 1993), Fine, No Marks Or Wear.

First edition. 8vo. xiii, 437 pp. Figures, index. Purple printed wrappers. Near fine. [br] ISBN: 0521558816 Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, and the alleged foundation of the very notion of time asymmetry in the entropic asymmetry of systems in time. The book emphasizes the interaction of scientific and philosophical modes of reasoning, and in this way will interest all philosophers of science as well as those in physics and chemistry concerned with philosophical questions. The book could also be read by an informed general reader interested in the foundations of modern science. [CUP]. Sklar is the Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan.