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• Syllabus
• Modified Schedule (version 2)
  

• Lecture Slides
• 01. Inventing Temperature, Part I
• 02. Inventing Temperature, Part II
• 03. Inventing Temperature, Part III
• 04. Inventing Temperature, Part IV
• 05. Inventing Temperature, Part V
• 06. Lavoisier and the Caloric Theory
  
• 07. The Wave Theory of Heat
• 08. Science of Energy, Part I
• 09. Science of Energy, Part II
• 10. Science of Energy, Part III
• 11. Science of Energy, Part IV
• 12. Kinetic Theory, Part I
• 13. Kinetic Theory, Part II
• 14. Brownian Motion and Maxwell's Demon
• 15. Information and Maxwell's Demon
• 16. Blackhole Thermoddynamics, Part I
• 17. Black hole Thermodynamics, Part II
  

• Studyguide Questions
• 01. Chang, Chaps1&2
• 02. Chang, Chaps3&4
• 03. Chang, Chaps5&6
• 04. Morris & Brush
• 05. Smith, Chaps1-7
• 06. Smith, Chaps8-14
• 07. Sklar
• 08. Earrman & Norton
• 09. Bokulich & Curiel
  

• Paper Topics
• Paper #1
• Paper #2
• Paper #3
  

• Links

• Guidelines for Writing Philosophical Essays
• Chang, H. (2007) "The Myth of the Boiling Point"
  

• Relevant articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• Bokulich, P. and Curiel, E. (2009) "Singularities and Black Holes"
  
• Chalmers, A. (2010) "Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Centuries"
  
• Maroney, O. (2009) "Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy"
• Pojman, P. (2009) "Ernst Mach"
• Sklar, L. (2009) "Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics"
• Uffink, J. (2004) "Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics"