The Origins of Time-Asymmetry in Thermodynamics: The Minus First Law

Scientific article / Stud. Hist. Philos. Mod. Phys., 2001, Vol. 32, No 4, pp. 525-538. This paper investigates what the source of time asymmetry is in thermodynamics, and comments on the question whether a time-symmetric formulation of the Second Law is possible.