Utrecht University
Department for Philosophy and Religious Studies
PhD, 2001
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    Probability in Classical Statistical Mechanics
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (1): 143-150. 2003.
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    Essay review: Probability in classical statistical physics
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33. 2001.
    Review article of Y.M. Guttmann, <em>The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics</em>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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    Ergodic theory, interpretations of probability and the foundations of statistical mechanics
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32 (4): 581--94. 2001.
    The traditional use of ergodic theory in the foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics is that it provides a link between thermodynamic observables and microcanonical probabilities. First of all, the ergodic theorem demonstrates the equality of microcanonical phase averages and infinite time averages (albeit for a special class of systems, and up to a measure zero set of exceptions). Secondly, one argues that actual measurements of thermodynamic quantities yield time averaged quantities, …Read more