Samuel Simon and Ademir E. Santana, “Causation, Symmetry and Time Irreversibility,” in The Insides of Nature: Causality and Conceptions of Nature, ed. Álvaro Balsas and Bruno Nobre, Axioma Studies in Philosophy of Nature and in Philosophy and History of Science 4 (Braga: Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia, 2020), 105–22, https://doi.org/10.17990/Axistudies/2020_04_105.
| Type | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Editor | Álvaro Balsas |
| Editor | Bruno Nobre |
| Author | Samuel Simon |
| Author | Ademir E. Santana |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.17990/Axistudies/2020_04_105 |
| Rights | © 2020 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |
| Series | Axioma Studies in Philosophy of Nature and in Philosophy and History of Science |
| Place | Braga |
| Publisher | Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia |
| Pages | 105-122 |
| ISBN | 978-972-697-319-5 |
| Date | 2020 |
| Series Number | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | The present work is addressing the problem of causation, in particular to analyze physical processes as irreversibility. For such a goal, we consider the notion of causation in the context of physics associated with the concept of time, taking as a starting point a set of definition for measurement in physics using the following concepts: the state of a physical system, the space-time symmetry (and the breaking of symmetry) and a physical system described by a field. This procedure can shed light on causation in physics, a problem still under controversy, in particular in non-abelian quantum field theory at finite temperature. Initially a general characterization of physical causation is presented, followed by a definition of restricted causation. Considering constitutive elements of a physical (mechanical) theory, we then discuss the notion of causation and time-irreversibility. |
| Book Title | The Insides of Nature: Causality and Conceptions of Nature |
| Date Added | 6/4/2020, 3:08:32 PM |
| Modified | 6/4/2020, 3:21:58 PM |
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