The Simple Failure of Curie’s Principle

Philosophy of Science 80 (4):579-592 (2013)
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I point out a simple sense in which the standard formulation of Curie’s principle is false when the symmetry transformation it describes is time reversal.

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Curie’s Principle and spontaneous symmetry breaking.John Earman - 2004 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18 (2 & 3):173 – 198.
What time reversal invariance is and why it matters.John Earman - 2002 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16 (3):245 – 264.
Curie's principle.Jenann Ismael - 1997 - Synthese 110 (2):167-190.
Curie's principle.A. F. Chalmers - 1970 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21 (2):133-148.

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