Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?

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Autor(a) principal: Peterson, Daniel
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/28338
Resumo: 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 in the details of this inference, the first of which utilizes a symmetry principle proposed by John Earman and the second of which utilizes Harvey Brown’s account of spacetime. I contend that neither of the resulting arguments is sound.
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spelling Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?Philosophy of physicsspacetime metaphysicsDirection of timesymmetriesLaws of natureMany 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 in the details of this inference, the first of which utilizes a symmetry principle proposed by John Earman and the second of which utilizes Harvey Brown’s account of spacetime. I contend that neither of the resulting arguments is sound.Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de FilosofiaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaPeterson, Daniel2017-07-12T23:03:31Z2017-052017-05-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/28338eng0873-626Xinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:20:02Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/28338Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:44:35.407629Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
spellingShingle Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
Peterson, Daniel
Philosophy of physics
spacetime metaphysics
Direction of time
symmetries
Laws of nature
title_short Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
title_full Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
title_fullStr Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
title_full_unstemmed Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
title_sort Do Time-Asymmetric Laws call for Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structure?
author Peterson, Daniel
author_facet Peterson, Daniel
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Peterson, Daniel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Philosophy of physics
spacetime metaphysics
Direction of time
symmetries
Laws of nature
topic Philosophy of physics
spacetime metaphysics
Direction of time
symmetries
Laws of nature
description 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 in the details of this inference, the first of which utilizes a symmetry principle proposed by John Earman and the second of which utilizes Harvey Brown’s account of spacetime. I contend that neither of the resulting arguments is sound.
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