Stig Stenholm

The Quest for Reality

Bohr and Wittgenstein - Two Complementary Views

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Produktbeschreibung

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview. Quantum theorist Stig Stenholm presents Bohr and Wittgenstein as central figures undertaking the necessary replacement of apparent order and certainty with an understanding based on limited concepts in constant flux.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780198729105
• ISBN-10: 0198729103
• Artikelnr.: 42396288

Autorenporträt

Stig Stenholm has carried out distinguished work in quantum optics for 40 years, holding professorships and research positions at the universities of Stuttgart and Helsinki, at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California, and at the Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, before his retirement from KTH Stockholm in 2004. He has received the Alexander von Humboldt Award, Germany, and The Homén Prize in Physics from the Societas Scientiarum Fennica.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Prelude: The modern stance
2: Twilight of the gods
3: The view from Copenhagen
4: Epistemological interlude
5: Wittgenstein enters the scene
6: Shaky foundations
7: Physics interface
8: Philosophical consequences
9: Metaphysics and reality
10: Concluding epilogue