Demons of Science

I. Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments in Ancient Greece.- What Thought Experiments Represent.- Models and Thought Experiments.- The Function of Thought Experiments.- What Thought Experiments Tell Us and Don't Tell Us About the
World.- Enter the
Demons.- II. Laplace's Demon: Laplace's Demon: Causal and Predictive Determinism.- Causality, Determinism and the Block Universe.- The Time-Reversal Invariance of Fundamental Laws.- Determinism and Its Implications.- Determinism and Free Will.- What Laplace's Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the World.- III. Maxwell's Demon: Local and Cosmic Arrows of Time.- Maxwell's Demon.- Loschmidt's Demon: Reversibility and Irreversibility.- Indeterminism.- Indeterminism and Free Will.- Entropy.- The Past-Future Asymmetry.- What Maxwell's Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the World.- IV. Nietzsche's Demon: The Eternal Recurrence of Events.- Landsberg's Demon.- Physical and Phenomenal Time.- The Evolution of the Universe.- Time and Change.- Is There a Master
Arrow of Time?.- What Landsberg's Demon Tells Us and Does
not Tell Us About the Arrows of Time.

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• Cosmologia e o Universo
• Física
• Impacto da ciência e da tecnologia na sociedade

Laplace's Demon;Maxwell's Demon;Nietzsche's Demon;Determinism and Indeterminism;Arrows of time;Mind and free will;Loschmidt's Demon;Paradoxes in classical mechanics;Paradoxes in special relativity;Entropy and information paradoxes;Thought experiments in science;Thought experiments in philosophy