The best Humean system for statistical mechanics

DOI10.1007/S10670-013-9541-5MaRDI QIDQ506911zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roman Frigg, Carl Hoefer

Publication date 2 February 2017

Published in Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/37075/

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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• Laws and chances in statistical mechanics
• On probabilities in biology and physics

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