Friedel Weinert is professor of history and philosophy
of science at the University of Bradford in the UK. He is the author of several
books about the interactions of science and philosophy - The Scientist as Philosopher (2004); Copernicus, Darwin and Freud
(2009); The March of Time (2013)- as well as editor of Laws of Nature (1995) and co-editor of Compendium of Quantum Physics (2009) and Evolution 2.0 (2012).

Demonstrates the central role that thought experiments can play in scientific reasoning and explores their deep philosophical consequences, with special emphasis on demons

Written primarily for an academic audience, but also accessible to the interested layperson

Inspires readers to question their existing assumptions about matters such as determinism and indeterminism

Also addresses the nature of the mind, free will, an the arrows of time

Includes supplementary material: [...]

I. Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments in Ancient Greece.- What Thought Experiments Represent.- Models and Thought Experiments.- The Function of Thought Experiments.- What Thought Experiments Tell Us and Don¿t Tell Us About the
World.- Enter the
Demons.- II. Laplace's Demon: Laplace¿s Demon: Causal and Predictive Determinism.- Causality, Determinism and the Block Universe.- The Time-Reversal Invariance of Fundamental Laws.- Determinism and Its Implications.- Determinism and Free Will.- What Laplace's Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the World.- III. Maxwell's Demon: Local and Cosmic Arrows of Time.- Maxwell¿s Demon.- Loschmidt¿s Demon: Reversibility and Irreversibility.- Indeterminism.- Indeterminism and Free Will.- Entropy.- The Past-Future Asymmetry.- What Maxwell¿s Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the World.- IV. Nietzsche's Demon: The Eternal Recurrence of Events.- Landsberg¿s Demon.- Physical and Phenomenal Time.- The Evolution of the Universe.- Time and Change.- Is There a Master
Arrow of Time?.- What Landsberg¿s Demon Tells Us and Does
not Tell Us About the Arrows of Time.