Alastair Wilson is a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 2011, for a thesis on the metaphysical challenges and opportunities arising from Everettian (many-worlds) quantum mechanics. His current research focuses on modality, chance and fundamentality, and on epistemological and metaphysical questions in cosmology

• Introduction: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry ; 1. Chance and Context ; 2. Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem ; 3. Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham ; 4. Proving the Principal Principle ; 5. A Chancy 'Magic Trick' ; 6. From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Renyi: There?s No Escaping Humphreys? Paradox (When Generalized) ; 7. Is the Past a Matter of Chance? ; 8. The Sharpness of the Distinction Between the Past and the Future ; 9. Experience and the Arrow ; 10. Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum ; 11. Why Physics Can't Explain Everything ; 12. Statistical-Mechanical Imperialism ; 13. Hume's Dictum and Natural Modality: Counterfactuals ; 14. Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything ; Index

It's a very cohesive volume. Importantly not only do the papers represent high quality research, but most are usually clear and fantastic reads.

Alastair Wilson is a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 2011, for a thesis on the metaphysical challenges and opportunities arising from Everettian (many-worlds) quantum mechanics. His current research focuses on modality, chance and fundamentality, and on epistemological and metaphysical questions in cosmology

• Introduction: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry ; 1. Chance and Context ; 2. Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem ; 3. Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham ; 4. Proving the Principal Principle ; 5. A Chancy 'Magic Trick' ; 6. From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Renyi: There?s No Escaping Humphreys? Paradox (When Generalized) ; 7. Is the Past a Matter of Chance? ; 8. The Sharpness of the Distinction Between the Past and the Future ; 9. Experience and the Arrow ; 10. Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum ; 11. Why Physics Can't Explain Everything ; 12. Statistical-Mechanical Imperialism ; 13. Hume's Dictum and Natural Modality: Counterfactuals ; 14. Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything ; Index

It's a very cohesive volume. Importantly not only do the papers represent high quality research, but most are usually clear and fantastic reads.

Alastair Wilson is a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 2011, for a thesis on the metaphysical challenges and opportunities arising from Everettian (many-worlds) quantum mechanics. His current research focuses on modality, chance and fundamentality, and on epistemological and metaphysical questions in cosmology

• Introduction: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry ; 1. Chance and Context ; 2. Autonomous Chances and the Conflicts Problem ; 3. Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to Meacham ; 4. Proving the Principal Principle ; 5. A Chancy 'Magic Trick' ; 6. From Kolmogorov, to Popper, to Renyi: There?s No Escaping Humphreys? Paradox (When Generalized) ; 7. Is the Past a Matter of Chance? ; 8. The Sharpness of the Distinction Between the Past and the Future ; 9. Experience and the Arrow ; 10. Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum ; 11. Why Physics Can't Explain Everything ; 12. Statistical-Mechanical Imperialism ; 13. Hume's Dictum and Natural Modality: Counterfactuals ; 14. Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything ; Index

It's a very cohesive volume. Importantly not only do the papers represent high quality research, but most are usually clear and fantastic reads.