Title: Time's arrows today: recent physical and philosophical work on the direction of time
Abstract: Introduction Part I. Cosmology and Time's Arrow: 1. Time, gravity, and quantum mechanics W. Unruh 2. Cosmology, time's arrow, and that old double standard H. Price Part II. Quantum Theory and Time's Arrow: 3. Time's arrow and the quantum measurement problem A. Leggett 4. Time, decoherence, and 'reversible' measurements P. Stamp 5. Time flows, non-locality, and measurement in quantum mechanics S. McCall 6. Stochastically branching spacetime topology R. Douglas Part III. Thermodynamics and Time's Arrow: 7. The elusive object of desire: in pursuit of the kinetic equations and the second law L. Sklar 8. Time in experience and in theoretical description of the world L. Sklar 9. When and why does entropy increase? M. Barrett and E. Sober Part IV. Time Travel and Time's Arrow: 10. Closed causal chains P Horwich 11. Recent work on time travel J. Earman.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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