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Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an international surge of scholarly analyses of Bohr's philosophy. In ""Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy"", Jan Faye and Henry Folse have brought together 16 authors who have helped mould this new round of discussions on Bohr's philosophy. These 15 essays present a variety of the different facets of Niels Bohr as the natural philosopher whose ""framework of complementarity"" shaped the final phase of the quantum revolution and influenced two generations of the century's leading physicists. There is much on which the authors included here agree; but there are also polar disagreements, which assure us that the philosophical questions revolving around Bohr's ""new viewpoint"" will continue to be a subject of scholarly interest and discussion for years to come. This collection should interest all serious students of history and philosophy of science and foundations of physics.

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Author:   J. Faye ,  H. Folse
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1994 ed.
Volume:   153
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.690kg
ISBN:  

9780792323785

ISBN 10:   0792323785
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   31 December 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Bohr’s Response to EPR.- Niels Bohr’s Words and the Atlantis of Kantianism.- A Bohmian Response to Bohr’s Complementarity.- Niels Bohr and Realism.- Non-Locality or Non-Separability? A Defense of Bohr’s Anti-Realist Approach to Quantum Mechanics.- Bohr’s Framework of Complementarity and the Realism Debate.- Description and Deconstruction: Niels Bohr and Modern Philosophy.- Bohr and the Crisis of Empirical Intelligibility: An Essay on the Depth of Bohr’s Thought and Our Philosophical Ignorance.- What Makes a Classical Concept Classical? Toward a Reconstruction of Niels Bohr’s Philosophy of Physics.- Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics.- Niels Bohr’s Conceptual Legacy in Contemporary Particle Physics.- A Critique of Bohr’s Local Realism.- Bohr and the Realism Debates.- The Bohr-Einstein Dispute.- Hidden Historicity: The Challenge of Bohr’s Philosophical Thought.- Quantum Theory and the Place of Mind in Nature.- References.- Name Index.

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