Heisenberg and the interpretation of quantum mechanics: the physicist as philosopher
This book provides a new perspective on Heisenberg's interpretation of quantum mechanics for researchers and graduate students in the history and philosophy of physics.
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| Summary: | This book provides a new perspective on Heisenberg's interpretation of quantum mechanics for researchers and graduate students in the history and philosophy of physics. |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface PaSe
x
1
Introduction
1
1.1 Heisenberg
s
philosophy of quantum mechanics
3
1.2 Heisenberg
as a philosopher-physicist
8
PART I THE EMERGENCE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
15
2
Quantum mechanics and the principle of observability
17
2.1
The observability principle
18
2.2
The renunciation of the electron orbit and the elimination of
unobservables
21
2.3 Heisenberg s
version of the observability principle
26
2.4
The meaning of observability: a discussion with Einstein
31
3
The problem of interpretation
36
3.1
Reconceptualising the electron s motion
37
3.2
The physical meaning of
Schrödinger s
wave mechanics
40
3.3
Drawing the battle lines:
Heisenberg
and
Schrödinger
on
understanding in physics
44
3.4
Redefining Anschaulichkeit
48
3.5
Instrumentalism
or realism? Heisenberg s notion of closed
theories
53
PARTII
THE HEISENBERG-BOHR DIALOGUE
61
4
The wave—particle duality
63
4.1
The physical reality of the electron: wave or particle?
65
vii
viii Contents
A
2
Probability waves and the quantum mechanics of particles
68
4.3
Quantised matter waves and wave-particle equivalence
73
4.4 Heisenberg
and Bohr: divergent views of wave-particle duality
77
5
Indeterminacy and the limits of classical concepts: the
turning point in
Heisenberg^
thought
85
5.1
New concepts of space and time in quantum theory
87
5.2
The introduction of the gamma-ray microscope
92
5.3
Bohr s analysis of the limits of measurement and the meaning of
concepts
95
5.4
The turning point in
Heisenberg s
philosophy
100
6 Heisenberg
and Bohr: divergent viewpoints of
complementarity
108
6.1
Bohr s complementarity of space-time and causal descriptions
109
6.2
The
Heisenberg
interpretation
112
6.3 Weizsäcker s
reconstruction
116
6.4
Mutually exclusive experimental arrangements
118
6.5
The object-instrument divide
123
PART III HEISENBERG S EPISTEMOLOGY AND
ONTOLOGY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
131
7
The transformation of Kantian philosophy
133
7.1 Heisenberg s
early confrontation with Kantian philosophy
134
7.2
The doctrine of classical concepts
139
7.3
The constitutive dimension of language and the forms of
intuition
142
7.4 Heisenberg s
transformation of the
apriori
147
8
The linguistic turn in
Heisenberg^
thought
152
8.1 Heisenberg
s
conception of language
15 3
8.2
The language-reality problem in quantum mechanics
158
8.3
The problem of meaning
161
8.4
Actuality and potentiality
165
Conclusion
172
References
179
Index
196
Heisenberg
and the Interpretation
of Quantum Mechanics
Werner
Heisenberg
was a pivotal figure in the development
of quantum mechanics in the
1920s,
and also one of its most
insightful interpreters. Together with
Bohr, Heisenberg
forged
what is commonly known as the Copenhagen interpretation .
Yet Heisenberg s philosophical viewpoint did not remain fixed
overtime, and his interpretation of quantum mechanics differed
in several crucial respects from Bohr s. This book traces the
development of Heisenberg s philosophy of quantum mechanics,
beginning with his positivism ofthemid-io.zos, through his
neo-Kantian reading of Bohr in the 1930s. and culminating with
his linguistic turn in the
1940s
and
1950s.
It focuses on the
nature of this transformation in Heisenberg s thought and its
wider philosophical context, which have until now not received
the attention they deserve. This new perspective on Heisenberg s
interpretation of quantum mechanics will interest researchers
and graduate students in the history and philosophy of
twentieth-century physics.
Kristian
Camilleri is a Lecturer in the History and Philosophy
of Science Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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