A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
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This is an extensive review of recent work on the foundations of statistical mechanics. Subject matters discussed include: interpretation of probability, typicality, recurrence, reversibility, ergodicity, mixing, coarse graining, past hypothesis, reductionism, phase average, thermodynamic limit, interventionism, entropy.
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