PHIL 429 - bG Direction of Time

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Yale University

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Jill North. t 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Attempts to explain the temporal asymmetries we experience at the macroscopic level-coffee cools and ice melts, we have memories of the past and not the future, and so on-given that the underlying laws of physics are symmetric in time. Questions include whether it is possible to have a unified explanation for the different asymmetries we experience and whether time has a direction. Consideration of how the probabilities required by the explanations should be understood metaphysically.

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3.00

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www.yale.edu

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(203) 432-4771

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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