Alori V Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation 2020 torrent

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The book explores several open questions in the philosophy and the foundations of statistical mechanics. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in philosophy of physics and/or mathematical physics. Here is a list of questions that are addressed in the book:
Boltzmann showed how the phenomenological laws of thermodynamics, such as the second law of thermodynamics, can be suitably derived from statistical mechanics, which is based on classical mechanics. What exactly does this explanation amount to?Assuming that Boltzmann is able to explain the thermodynamic arrow of time connected with the second law, what about the psychological arrow?Many physicists use the notion of typicality instead of the one of probability when discussing statistical mechanics. What is typicality? What is its connection with probability? Is typicality explanatory?How can one extend Boltzmann's analysis to the quantum domain? Can indeterminism help or it does not play a fundamental role?How does this approach extend to theories in which gravity plays an important role?Boltzmann's explanation fundamentally involves cosmology: for the explanation to go through the Big Bang needs to have had extremely low entropy. Does the fact that the Big Bang was a low entropy state imply that it was, in some sense, ""highly improbable"" and requires an explanation? Are there approaches in which one can avoid postulating something like the past hypothesis?Statistical mechanics has two main formulations: one due to Boltzmann and the other due to Gibbs. What is the connection between the two formulations? Is one more fundamental than the other?
Introduction
The Different Faces of Explanation
The Mentaculus Vision
Probabilistic Explanations and the Derivation of Macroscopic Laws
Some Reflections on the Statistical Postulate: Typicality, Probability and Explanation between Deterministic and Indeterministic Theories
Explaining Thermodynamics: What Remains to be Done?
The Language of Typicality
Reassessing Typicality Explanations in Statistical Mechanics
The Logic of Typicality
The Grammar of Typicality
The Past Hypothesis, the Arrows of Time, and Cosmology
Can the Past Hypothesis Explain the Psychological Arrow of Time?
Eternal Recurrence Worlds and the Best System Account of Laws
Arrow(s) of Time without a Past Hypothesis
The Influence of Gravity on the Boltzmann Entropy of a Closed Universe
Some Consideration from Quantum Mechanics
Foundations of Statistical Mechanics and the Status of the Born Rule in de Broglie-Bohm Pilot-Wave Theory
Time’s Arrow in a Quantum Universe: On the Status of Statistical Mechanical Probabilities
Boltzmann and Gibbs
Gibbs and Boltzmann Entropy in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
The Necessity of Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics
Taming Abundance: On the Relation between Boltzmannian and Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics