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(1973) Philosophical problems of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer.
Is the coarse-grained entropy of classical statistical mechanics an anthropomorphism?
Adolf Grünbaum
pp. 646-665
In Chapter 8, I claimed that the coarse-grained classical entropy statistics of certain ensembles of branch systems contribute to the "arrow" of time. And in Chapter 22, §4, we shall transpose this theme to a relativistic space-time. But it has been charged that the coarse-grained entropy of a physical system is an anthropomorphism, incapable of a role in physically undergirding time's arrow. Hence it behooves us to face this charge. In the present chapter, I shall argue that the entropy in question can be validly construed in scientific realist fashion instead of being an anthropomorphism.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2622-2_19
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Grünbaum, A. (1973). Is the coarse-grained entropy of classical statistical mechanics an anthropomorphism?, in Philosophical problems of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 646-665.
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