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(Dis-)solving the puzzle of the arrow of radiation
Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-1315, USA E-mail: m-frisch@nwu.edu
I criticize two accounts of the temporal asymmetry of electromagnetic radiation - that of Huw Price, whose account centrally involves a reinterpretation of Wheeler and Feynman's infinite absorber theory, and that of Dieter Zeh. I then offer some reasons for thinking that the purported puzzle of the arrow of radiation does not present a genuine puzzle in need of a solution.