  Recent discussions of the origins of the thermodynamical asymmetry ("the
arrow of time") by Huw Price and others are critically assessed. This serves as
a motivation for consideration of relationship between thermodynamical and
cosmological causes. Although the project of clarification of the
thermodynamical explanandum is certainly welcome, Price excludes another
interesting option, at least as viable as the sort of Acausal-Particular
approach he favors, and arguably more in the spirit of Boltzmann himself. Thus,
the competition of explanatory projects includes three horses, not two. In
addition, it is the Acausal-Particular approach that could benefit enormously
from dissociation from fanciful ideas of low-entropy future boundary conditions
entertained by Price. Novel revolutionary developments in observational
cosmology, as well as in the nascent astrophysical discipline of physical
eschatology, have obliterated such hypotheses. Also, the Acausal-Anthropic
approach we propose, offers another clear instance of disteleological nature of
the anthropic principle.
