Writings on Physics and Philosophy
Authors: Pauli, Wolfgang
Editors: Enz, Charles P., Meyenn, Karl v. (Eds.)
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Like Bohr, Einstein and Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli was not only a Nobel laureate and one of the creators of modern physics, but also an eminent philosopher of modern science. This is the first book in English to include all his famous articles on physics and epistemology. They were actually translated during Pauli's lifetime by R. Schlapp and are now edited and annotated by Pauli's former assistant Ch. Enz. Pauli writes about the philosophical significance of complementarity, about space,time and causality, symmetry and the exclusion principle, but also about therole of the unconscious in modern science. His famous article on Kepler is included as well as many historical essays on Bohr, Ehrenfest,and Einstein as well as on the influence of the unconscious on scientific theories. The book addresses not only physicists, philosophers and historians of science, but also the general public.
- Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Robert Schlapp (1899–1991)
Pages 7-11
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Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
Pages 13-26
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Matter
Pages 27-34
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The Philosophical Significance of the Idea of Complementarity
Pages 35-42
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Probability and Physics
Pages 43-48
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Writings on Physics and Philosophy
- Authors
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- Wolfgang Pauli
- Editors
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- Charles P. Enz
- Karl v. Meyenn
- Translated by
- Schlapp, R.
- Copyright
- 1994
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-662-02994-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-02994-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-56859-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-08163-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 290
- Number of Illustrations
- 27 b/w illustrations
- Topics