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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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"From my view, it's more important than anything else in physics to philosophy," he says of statistical mechanics. "I studied statistical mechanics in college, but I didn't have an inkling that it was going to be so important philosophically ... not an inkling at all." The only way it came up in philosophy was over the issue of reduction and discussions of how thermodynamics gets reduced to statistical mechanics,.
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