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CUNY Colloquium
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9205/6
CUNY Colloquium
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9205/6
Nov 13 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Each colloquium is held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M. All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9205/9206 except as otherwise noted. Please call (212) 817-8615 for further information. Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule here. September 11 • Jonathan Adler Memorial Lecture Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) “Progress in the Sciences—and in the Arts” September 18 • Note: colloquium will begin at 5:45pm Jason Stanley (Yale University) “Hustle: The Politics[...]
4:30 pm
In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. Christopher Weaver (University of Illinois)
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics. Christopher Weaver (University of Illinois)
@ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Nov 13 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
I will argue, pace a great many of my contemporaries, that there’s something right about Boltzmann’s attempt to ground the 2nd law of thermodynamics in deterministic time-reversal invariant classical dynamics, and that in order to appreciate what’s right about (what was at least at one time) Boltzmann’s explanatory project one has to fully apprehend the nature of (a) microphysical causal structure, (b) time-reversal invariance, and (c) the relationship between Boltzmann entropy and the work of[...]
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