Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Causality-Explanation Connection from Aristotle to Mill -- Aristotle -- Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes -- Newton -- Hume -- Kant -- Mill -- 2 Regularity between States of Physical Systems in the Nineteen...

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1. Verfasser:	Losee, John 1932- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2017
Ausgabe:	First issued in paperback 2017
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Komplementarität Naturwissenschaften Philosophie Kausalität
Zusammenfassung:	Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Causality-Explanation Connection from Aristotle to Mill -- Aristotle -- Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes -- Newton -- Hume -- Kant -- Mill -- 2 Regularity between States of Physical Systems in the Nineteenth Century -- Alternative Views of Newtonian Mechanics -- Classical Thermodynamics -- Kinetic Molecular Theory -- Atomic Theory -- Electromagnetic Theory -- 3 Prelude to Quantum Mechanics -- Radioactive Decay -- Thomson and Rutherford on Atomic Structure -- Planck's Quantum Hypothesis -- Bohr's Early Theory of the Hydrogen Atom -- Contributions from Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Born, and De Broglie -- 4 The Copenhagen Interpretation -- Observational Level -- Theoretical Level -- Pictorial Level -- 5 The Rift between Causality and Explanation -- The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Challenge -- Neutral Pion Decay and the "Causality Implies Explanation" Thesis -- Two-Slit Experiments and the "Causality Implies Explanation" Thesis -- 6 The Rift between Causality and Explanation: Response Options -- Option One: Affirm that the "Causality Implies Explanation" Thesis Holds for the Results of Measurements -- Option Two: Causality Holds at a Sub-quantum Level -- Option Three: Deny That Causality Holds in the Quantum Realm -- Option Four: Appeal to Alternative Theories of Causality -- The Exchange of Conserved Quantities Interpretation of Causality -- The Contrary-to-Fact Conditional Interpretation of Causality -- The Energy Transfer Interpretation of Causality -- Option Five: Niels Bohr and the Limits of Causal Analysis -- 7 Complementarity in Biology -- 8 Complementarity in Psychology -- 9 Complementarity in Religious Language -- Applications of the Two Languages by Christian Theologians -- St Augustine St Thomas Aquinas -- Martin Luther -- Soren Kierkegaard -- The Two Languages: Mutually Exclusive but Complementary? -- Paul Tillich's Theology of Correlation -- Conclusion -- Henry Margenau's "Constructivist" View of Quantum Mechanics -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Beschreibung:	xi, 141 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:	9781412849906 9781138508361