Taking Thermodynamics Too Seriously

By Craig Callender. 2001

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Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Condensed Matter Physics

1. Jeremy Butterfield
2. Roman Frigg
3. Robert W. Batterman

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Jeremy Butterfield
2. Robert W. Batterman
3. Roman Frigg
4. John D. Norton

Citations in the corpus

• On the Explanatory Role of Mathematics in Empirical Science (2010, background): “Some, like Craig Callender ([2001]), argue that to accept this is to ‘take thermodynamics too seriously’.”
• Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconciled (2011, background): “ious ones. And philosophically, it has been a prominent example in recent controversy about whether the N = ∞ limit is “physical real”, and whether a “singular” limit is necessary for emergence (e.g. Callender (2001, Section 5, pp. 547-551), Liu (2001, Sections 2-3, pp. S326-S341), Batterman (2005, ”
• Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction? (2010, background): “Callender (1999, 2001) has argued, in our view convincingly, that the unrestricted Second Law is too strong, and that we can accept a watered down version without contravening any known empirical fact, which is why we can regard these laws as strongly analogous.”
• Critical phenomena and breaking drops: Infinite idealizations in physics (2005, background): “Craig Callender [3], I think, can be understood as reasoning to this effect.”