On the relationship between macrostates and microstates Public Deposited
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Elliott, Katrina
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy
- Abstract
- There is a popular thesis regarding the relationship between macrostates and microstates called ‘supervenience’. In roughly the first half of this paper, I argue that supervenience, despite its intuitive appeal, is false. I claim that microstates do not, contra supervenience, determine macrostates, but rather, that macrostates are determined by probability distributions over microstates. In the second half of this paper, I spend time exploring, clarifying, and defending this view. I conclude that, while more work must be done than I can do here to adequately defend my favored replacement for the supervenience thesis, it is a prima facie plausible and promising view.
- Date of publication
- August 2007
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- Advisor
- Lange, Marc
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Open access
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