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BOOKS

(2012) The Road to Maxwell’s Demon (Cambridge University Press). With Meir Hemmo.
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a link to an audio interview in which some of the main ideas in the book are described.

 


(2012) The Sociological Turn: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Social Construction of Scientific Facts. (The Open University of Israel) (in Hebrew).

(1986, 1996) A Guide to Documentary Credits, with David M. Sassoon, Tel-Aviv: Schocken, 1986; 2nd edition, with Meir Yifrach, 1996 (in Hebrew).

ARTICLES
 

(2015) The Emergence of Macroscopic Regularity. With M. Hemmo. Mind and Society (Springer Verlag). DOI 10.1007/s11299-015-0176-x

(2015) Davidsonian Descriptions as a Principle Theory (in Hebrew). Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 64:171-190.

(2015, forthcoming) The Arrow of Time. In Y. Dolev and M. Roubach (editors), Cosmological and Conscious Time. Springer Verlag. With M. Hemmo.

(2015, forthcoming) A Quantum Mechanical Maxwellian Demon. With M. Hemmo. Forthcoming in: B. Loewer, B. Weslake and A. Winsberg (Eds.), Time’s Arrow and the Origin of the Universe: Reflections on Time and Chance: Essays in Honor of David Albert’s Work, Harvard University Press.

(2015, forthcoming) Maxwell's Demon. With M. Hemmo. Oxford University Press Online.

(2015, forthcoming) Boltzmann's approach to probability. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

(2014) Probability and Typicality in Deterministic Physics. With M. Hemmo. Erkenntnis. online edition at:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-014-9683-0?sa_campaign=email/event/articleAuthor/onlineFirst

(2013) Probability Zero in Bohm’s theory. With M. Hemmo. Philosophy of Science 80:1148-1158.

(2013) Entropy and Computation: The Landauer-Bennett Thesis Reexamined. With M. Hemmo. Entropy 15: 3387-3401

(2013) On an Incoherence Between Multiple Realizability and Supervenience: An argument for Type Physicalism. With M. Hemmo. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly. 62: 107-122. 

(2012) Measures Over Initial Conditions. With M. Hemmo. In: Y. Ben-Menahem and M. Hemmo (eds.) Probability in Physics: Essays in Honor of Itamar PitowskyThe Frontiers Collection, Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 87-98

(2012). The Mathematical Representation of the Arrow of Time. With M. Hemmo. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 61: 167-192. 

(2011) Introduction to the Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics: Can Probability Explain the Arrow of Time in the Second Law of Thermodynamics? With M. Hemmo. Philosophy Compass 6(9), 640-651.

(2011) Szilard's Perpetuum Mobile. With M. Hemmo. Philosophy of Science 78: 264-283.

(2010) Maxwell's Demon. With M. Hemmo. The Journal of philosophy 107: 389-411. 

(2009) Probability and Experience. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 307-323 (in Hebrew).

(2006)Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy, Philosophy of Science 73(2), 153-174. With M. Hemmo.

(2005) Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium (Part II), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36, 626-648. With M. Hemmo.

(2004) Maxwell’s Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35, 537-540.

(2003) Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium (Part I), Philosophy of Science 70, 330-358. With M. Hemmo.

(2001) Can We Explain Thermodynamics by Quantum Decoherence? Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32: 555-568. With M. Hemmo.

(2000) Science: Freedom and Reason: Comments on Mara Beller's QuantumDialogue. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 50: 55-62.

(1999) Maxwell's Demon and Baron Munchausen: Free Will as a PerpetuumMobile, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30: 347-372.

(1999), Is -kTr[rho]ln[rho] The Entropy in Quantum Mechanics? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50: : 33-48

(1994) Fractal Geometry is not the Geometry of Nature. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 25: 967-981.