Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy

An Anti-Realist View of Quantum Mechanics

Jan Faye (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

265 Seiten

1991
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-1294-9 (ISBN)

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The bulk of the present book has not been published previously though Chapters II and IV are based in part on two earlier papers of mine: "The Influence of Harald H!1lffding's Philosophy on Niels Bohr's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", which appeared in Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, 1979, and "The Bohr-H!1lffding Relationship Reconsidered", published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1988. These two papers comple ment each other, and in order to give the whole issue a more extended treatment I have sought, in the present volume by drawing on relevant historical material, to substantiate the claim that H!1lffding was Bohr's mentor. Besides containing a detailed account of Bohr's philosophy, the book, at the same time, serves the purpose of making H!1lffding' s ideas and historical significance better known to a non-Danish readership. During my work on this book I have consulted the Royal Danish Library; the National Archive of Denmark and the Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, in search of relevant material. I am grateful for permission to use and quote material from these sources. Likewise, I am indebted to colleagues and friends for commenting upon the manuscript: I am especially grateful to Professor Henry Folse for our many discussions during my visit to New Orleans in November-December 1988 and again here in Elsinore in July 1990.

I: Høffding as Mentor.- I.- II.- III.- IV.- II: Bohr and the Atomic Description of Nature.- V.- VI.- VII.- VIII.- Epilogue: The Legacy.- Notes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.1991
Reihe/Serie	Science and Philosophy ; 6
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 265 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10	0-7923-1294-5 / 0792312945
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-1294-9 / 9780792312949
Zustand	Neuware