ISBN:
9789400717480
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 176p. 6 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 286
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T.
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Science History
;
Philosophy, modern
;
Science Philosophy
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Science History
;
Philosophy, modern
;
Science Philosophy
Abstract:
This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr's philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls "spectators" and "actors". It seeks to spell out the structural and historical complexity of the idea of complementarity in terms of different modes of the 'spectator-actor' relation, showing, in particular, that the reorganization of Bohr's thought starting from his 1935 debate with Einstein and his collaborators is characterized by an extension of the dynamic conception
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1 Bohr and the Development of Quantum Theory: A Brief Review; 2 An Overview of Bohr's Complementarity; 2.1 The 'Early' Period: Complementarity in Quantum Theory; 2.2 The 'Early' Period: Complementarity in Various Fields; 2.3 The Debate with EPR and the 'Middle' Period; 2.4 Complementarity in the 'Late' Period; 3 Prior Interpretations of Complementarity; 3.1 Early Interpretations by Physicists; 3.2 Complementarity and the Realism Debate; 3.3 Possible Diachronic Changes in Bohr's Thought; 3.4 Complementarity in the History of Modern Philosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
4 A Philosophical-Historical Analysis of Complementarity4.1 The 'Early' Period: Two Conceptions of Complementarity; 4.2 The 'Early' Period: Further Philosophical Implications; 4.3 The 'Middle' Period: A Reorganization of Complementarity; 4.4 The 'Late' Period: Toward an Objectivist Philosophy; 5 Intersections with Hermeneutic Philosophy; 5.1 Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics; 5.2 Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Text; 5.3 Complementarity and Hermeneutic Philosophy; 6 Intersections with Derridean Deconstruction; 6.1 Derrida's Project of Deconstruction
Description / Table of Contents:
6.2 Plotnitsky on Complementarity and Deconstruction6.3 Critical Appraisal of Plotnitsky's Analysis; 6.4 Complementarity and Derridean Deconstruction; Concluding Remarks; References; Name Index; Subject Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1748-0
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