Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Editorial Note

Part One Papers and Book Chapters (1948-1970)

1 The Concept of Intelligibility in Modern Physics (1948)

2 Physics and Ontology (1954)

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3 Determinism and Quantum Mechanics (1954)

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4 A Remark on von Neumann's Proof (1956)

Literature

5 Complementarity (1958)

1. Introduction

2. Duality

3. Philosophical Background

4. Generalizations of Classical Physics Complementarity

5. The Copenhagen Interpretation

6. Elementary Quantum Mechanics

7. Wider Application of Complementarity Summary

6 Niels Bohr's Interpretation of the Quantum Theory(1961)

1. Introduction

2. Indefiniteness of State Descriptions

3. Wave Mechanics

4. The Dogmatic Elements in Bohr's Approach

Rejoinder to Hanson (1961)

Editorial Note

7 Problems of Microphysics (1962)

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Early Quantum Theory: Wave-Particle Duality

3. Wave Mechanics

4. The Argument of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen

5. Superstates

6. The Relational Character of the Quantum Mechanical States

7. Complementarity

8. The Role of Speculation in Physics

9. Von Neumann’s Investigations

10. Observational Completeness

11. Measurement

12. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics; the Field Theories

8 About Conservative Traits in the Sciences, and Especially in Quantum Theory, and Their Elimination (1963)

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9 Problems of Microphysics (1964)

10 Peculiarity and Change in Physical Knowledge (1965)

Three Differences

Attitude

Justification

Logical Structure

Invention of Scientific Methods

The Situation Today

11 Dialectical Materialism and the Quantum Theory (1966)

12 Remarks about the Application of Non-Classical Logics in Quantum Theory (1966)

1. Ontological Interpretations

2. The Copenhagen Interpretation

3. Einstein's Interpretation

4. Reichenbach's Interpretation

5. Mittelstaedt

6. Summary

13 On the Possibility of a Perpetuum Mobile of the Second Kind (1966)

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References

14 In Defence of Classical Physics (1970)

I. Three Views of Human Knowledge

II. General Arguments for a Parmenidean Approach

III. Survival of Classical Ideas

IV. Classical Statistics

V. Probabilities

VI. Birkhoff’s Theorem

VII. Conclusion

Part Two Reviews and Comments (1957-1967)

15 Review of Alfred Landé, Foundations of Quantum-Mechanics: A Study in Continuity and Symmetry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955 (1957)

16 Excerpts from Discussions with Léon Rosenfeld and David Bohm (and Others) (1957)

1. On David Bohm, ‘‘A Proposed Explanation of Quantum Theory in Terms of Hidden Variables at a Sub-Quantum-Mechanical Level’’ and Léon Rosenfeld, ‘‘Misunderstandings about the Foundations of Quantum Theory’’

2. On Markus Fierz, ‘‘Does Physical Theory Comprehend an ‘Objective, Real, Single Process’?’’, Stephan Körner, ‘‘On Philosophical Arguments in Physics’’, and Michael Polanyi, ‘‘Beauty, Elegance, and Reality in Science’’

3. On Paul K. Feyerabend, ‘‘On the Quantum-Theory of Measurement’’ and G. Süssmann, ‘‘An Analysis of Measurement’’

4. On William C. Kneale, ‘‘What Can We See?’’ and Walter B. Gallie, ‘‘The Limits of Prediction’’

17 Review of John von Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, translated from the German edition by Robert T. Beyer, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955 (1958)

18 Review of Hans Reichenbach, The Direction of Time, Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956 (1959)

19 Professor Landé on the Reduction of the Wave Packet (1960)

20 Comments on Grünbaum’s ‘‘Law and Convention in Physical Theory’’ (1961)

21 Comments on Hill’s ‘‘Quantum Physics and Relativity Theory’’ (1961)

22 Review of Norwood R. Hanson, The Concept of the Positron: A Philosophical Analysis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1963 (1964)

23 Review of Hans Reichenbach, Philosophic Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965 (1967)

Part Three Encyclopedia Entries (1958-1967)

24 Natural Philosophy (1958)

25 Philosophical Problems of Quantum Theory (1964)

[1]1. Introduction

2. The Quantum of Action

3. The Copenhagen Interpretation

4. Wave Mechanics

5. The Future of Microphysics

Literature

26 Ludwig Boltzmann, 1844-1906 (1967)

Philosophy of Science

Hypothetical Character of Knowledge

Scientific Theories

Deductive and Inductive Methods

Criticism

Physics

Entropy

[337a]Bibliography

27 Werner Heisenberg (1967)

Matrix Mechanics

Elementary Particle Theory

Bibliography

28 Max Planck, 1858-1947 (1967)

Approach to Science

Scientific Discoveries

Realism, Determinism, and Religion

Works by Planck

Works on Planck

29 Erwin Schrödinger, 1887-1961(1967)

Thought

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index