Classical particle indistinguishability, precisely

Wills, James (2021) Classical particle indistinguishability, precisely. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882
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I present a new perspective on the meaning of indistinguishability of classical particles. This leads to a solution to the problem in statistical mechanics of justifying the inclusion of a factor N! in a probability distribution over the phase space of N indistinguishable classical particles.

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