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The
seminar is held in hybrid
format, in person (Múzeum
krt. 4/i Room 224) and
online.
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March (Friday) 4:15 PM
Room 224 + ONLINE |
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Charlotte
Werndl
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Department of
Philosophy, University of
Salzburg
Department of Philosophy,
Logic and Scientific
Method, LSE, London
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Can
Somebody Please Say What
Gibbsian
Statistical Mechanics Says?
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Gibbsian
statistical mechanics (GSM) is the
most widely used version of sta-
tistical mechanics among working
physicists. Yet a closer look at
GSM reveals that it is unclear
what the theory actually says and
how it bears on experimen- tal
practice. The root cause of the
difficulties is the status of the
Averaging Principle, the
proposition that what we observe
in an experiment is the en- semble
average of a phase function. We
review different stances toward
this principle, and eventually
present a coherent interpretation
of GSM that pro- vides an account
of the status and scope of the
principle.
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Related
paper: Roman Frigg and
Charlotte Werndl, "Can Somebody
Please Say What Gibbsian
Statistical Mechanics Says?", The
British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 72
(2021). Preprint: //philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14869/
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