I don't want to speculate exactly how influential my book was in the philosophy community. Barry liked it. He's one person. But whether or not that's true, I did certainly have in mind addressing questions that are of interest to both physicists and philosophers. In fact, the arrow of time was basically what got me into foundations of physics and natural philosophy. That's what I actually studied. The philosophy of science stuff was too much about theory change in methodology which was interesting, but not anything I wanted to do for a living.
Welcome to the November 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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