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Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Jan Faye

    1. Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  2. Henry J. Folse

    1. Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 153)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Bohr’s Response to EPR

    • Mara Beller, Arthur Fine
    Pages 1-31

  3. Niels Bohr’s Words and the Atlantis of Kantianism

    • Catherine Chevalley
    Pages 33-55

  4. A Bohmian Response to Bohr’s Complementarity

    • James T. Cushing
    Pages 57-75

  5. Niels Bohr and Realism

    • David Favrholdt
    Pages 77-96

  6. Non-Locality or Non-Separability?

    • Jan Faye
    Pages 97-118

  7. Bohr’s Framework of Complementarity and the Realism Debate

    • Henry J. Folse
    Pages 119-139

  8. Description and Deconstruction

    • John Honner
    Pages 141-153

  9. Bohr and the Crisis of Empirical Intelligibility: An Essay on the Depth of Bohr’s Thought and Our Philosophical Ignorance

    • Clifford A. Hooker
    Pages 155-199

  10. What Makes a Classical Concept Classical?

    • Don Howard
    Pages 201-229

  11. Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics

    • Paul Hoyningen-Huene
    Pages 231-255

  12. Niels Bohr’s Conceptual Legacy in Contemporary Particle Physics

    • David Kaiser
    Pages 257-268

  13. A Critique of Bohr’s Local Realism

    • Henry Krips
    Pages 269-277

  14. Bohr and the Realism Debates

    • Edward Mackinnon
    Pages 279-302

  15. The Bohr-Einstein Dispute

    • Dugald Murdoch
    Pages 303-324

  16. Hidden Historicity: The Challenge of Bohr’s Philosophical Thought

    • Ulrich Röseberg
    Pages 325-343

  17. Quantum Theory and the Place of Mind in Nature

    • Henry P. Stapp
    Pages 345-352

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 353-388
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About this book

Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an astonishing international surge of scholarly analyses of Bohr's philosophy. Now for the first time in Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy Jan Faye and Henry Folse have brought together sixteen of today's leading authors who have helped mould this new round of discussions on Bohr's philosophy. In fifteen entirely new, previously unpublished essays we discover a surprising variety of the different facets of 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 will interest all serious students of history and philosophy of science, and foundations of physics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jan Faye

  • Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, USA

    Henry J. Folse

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