Niels Bohr's Complementarity

Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Makoto Katsumori (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2013 | 2011 ed.
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-3733-4 (ISBN)

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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 of complementarity from non-physical contexts to the very field of quantum theory. Further, linked with this analysis, the book situates Bohr’s complementarity in contemporary philosophical context by examining its intersections with post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as well as Derridean deconstruction. Specifically, it points to both the close affinities and the differences between Bohr’s idea of the ‘actor-spectator’ relation and the hermeneutic notion of the relation between “belonging” and “distanciation.”

Bohr and the Development of Quantum Theory: A Brief Review.- An Overview of Bohr’s  Complementarity.-  Prior Interpretations of Complementarity .- A Philosophical-Historical Analysis of Complementarity.- Intersections with Hermeneutic Philosophy.-  Intersections with Derridean Deconstruction.-  Concluding Remarks .- References.

Reihe/Serie	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 286
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 178 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10	94-007-3733-5 / 9400737335
ISBN-13	978-94-007-3733-4 / 9789400737334
Zustand	Neuware