Schrödinger’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

Schrödinger’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics by Michael Bitbol.

This book is the final outcome of two projects. My first project was to publish a set of texts written by Schrodinger at the beginning of the 1950's for his seminars and lectures at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. These almost completely forgotten texts contained important insights i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bitbol, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Edition:1st ed. 1996.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 188
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Subjects:
History.
Philosophy and science.
Physics.
Quantum physics.
Epistemology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: The Controversy between Schrödinger and the Göttingen-Copenhagen Physicists in the 1950’s
  • 1–1 Schrödinger’s successive interpretations of quantum mechanics according to the current views
  • 1–2 Born’s and Heisenberg’s criticism of Schrödinger’s late interpretation of quantum mechanics
  • 1–3 Historical flaws in the Born-Heisenberg critique of Schrödinger’s late interpretation of quantum mechanics
  • 1–4 Misunderstandings about the concept of particle
  • 1–5 Misunderstandings about the concept of “reality”
  • 1–6 Misunderstandings about “causality”
  • 1–7 Schrödinger’s over-revolutionary attitude
  • 1–8 Modernity and post-modernity
  • 1–9 The continuity of Schrödinger’s attitude towards quantum mechanics (an outline)
  • 2: Schrödinger’s Theoretical Project
  • 2–1 Reality and virtuality (1924)
  • 2–2 Holism and wave-packets (1925)
  • 2–3 Holism and the three dimensions of space (1926)
  • 2–4 Wave interpretation versus electrodynamic interpretation: a prehistory of the empirical correspondence rules
  • 2–5 The lack of pictures
  • 2–6 The lack of continuity
  • 3: The Analytical Stance
  • 3–1 The ontological significance of the uncertainty relations
  • 3–2 The state vector as a catalog of informations
  • 4: Towards a New Ontology
  • 4–1 The fading of the concept of particle
  • 4–2 An ontology of state vectors
  • 4–3 The “blind spot” of quantum mechanics
  • 4–4 Neo-Schrödingerian views on the measurement problem. I-Everett’s interpretation
  • 4–5 Neo-Schrödingerian views on the measurement problem II-Modal and critical interpretations
  • 5: The “Thing” of Everyday Life
  • 5–1 The three features of objects
  • 5–2 The aspects and the “thing”
  • 5–3 The “elements” of the construction (Mach, Russell, Schrödinger, Husserl)
  • 5–4 Are the “basic data” really basic?
  • 5–5 The construction of objects and the unconscious
  • 5–6 The “thing” and the future
  • 5–7 Possibilities and infinities
  • 5–8 The “thing” as theory, and the theory as expectation
  • 5–9 Realism and morals
  • 5–10 Form and individuality
  • 5–11 Wholeness and individuality
  • 6: Complemetarity, Representation and Facts
  • 6–1 Schrödinger’s criticism of Bohr’s complementarity
  • 6–2 Bohr’s complementarities
  • 6–3 Schrödinger’s “complementarities”
  • 6–4 Two parallelisms
  • 6–5 Being-in-a-body and being-in-the-world
  • 6–6 The body, the world, and dualism
  • 6–7 The body, the world, and monism
  • 6–8 The body, the world, and anomalous parallelism
  • Conclusion.

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