Selected reading: Named section and worked examples.
Open the source ↗How to study this source
Why does time have an arrow?
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
How does order emerge from interaction?
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
Read alongside, read against
From Eternity to Here
Sean Carroll. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
de Groot · Mazur. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems
Nicolis · Prigogine. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The End of Certainty
Ilya Prigogine. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics
E. T. Jaynes. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.