| dc.contributor.author | Skow, Bradford | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-25T20:08:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-03-25T20:08:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-07 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8248 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61975 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Is there anything more to temperature than the ordering of things from colder
to hotter? Are there also facts, for example, about how much hotter (twice as
hot, three times as hot...) one thing is than another? There certainly are—but
the only strong justification for this claim comes from statistical mechanics.
What we knew about temperature before the advent of statistical mechanics
(what we knew about it from thermodynamics) provided only weak reasons
to believe it. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Philosophy of Science Association | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660304 | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | MIT web domain | en_US |
| dc.title | Does Temperature have a Metric Structure? | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Skow, Bradford. "Does Temperature have a Metric Structure?." forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, 78 (July 2011) pp. 472–489. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.contributor.approver | Skow, Bradford | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Skow, Bradford | |
| dc.relation.journal | Philosophy of Science | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Skow, Bradford | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540 | |
| mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
