Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
Many philosophers of physics take the failure of the laws of physics to be invariant under the time reversal transformation to give us good reason to think that spacetime is temporally anisotropic, yet the details of this inference are rarely made explicit. I discuss two reasonable ways of filling i...
| Publicado en: | Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 9; no. 44; pp. 75 - 99 |
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