What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: Defending Bare Probabilism

2024/07/18 by Wallace, David
#FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.13875

Abstract

I expound and defend the ``bare probabilism'' reading of Gibbsian (i.e. mainstream) statistical mechanics, responding to Frigg and Werndl's recent (BJPS 72 (2021), 105-129) plea: ``can somebody please say what Gibbsian statistical mechanics says?''

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