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Counterfactuals and the Past Hypothesis
Philosophy of Science 72 (5):739-750 (2005)
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Albert provides a sketch of an entropy account of the causal and counterfactual asymmetries. This paper critically examines a proposal that may be thought to fill in some of the lacunae in Albert’s account.Author's Profile
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