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physics.hist-ph2020
Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation
Christopher Gregory Weaver
I show how Hamilton's philosophical commitments led him to a causal interpretation of classical mechanics. I argue that Hamilton's metaphysics of causation was injected into his dy…
physics.hist-ph2020★ 8 cited
In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics
Christopher Gregory Weaver
I will argue, pace a great many of my contemporaries, that there's something right about Boltzmann's attempt to ground the second law of thermodynamics in a suitably amended determ…
physics.hist-ph2013★ 1 cited
On the Carroll-Chen Model
Christopher Gregory Weaver
I argue that the Carroll-Chen cosmogenic model does not provide a plausible scientific explanation of our universe's initial low-entropy state.