Thesis ID: CBB001560852

The Role of Philosophy in the Conceptual Development of Quantum Physics (2006)

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Diamond, Ethel (Author)


Drew University
Varon, Jeremy P.


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Advisor: Varon, Jeremy P.
Physical Details: 212 pp.
Language: English

Making a distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification, I examine the relationship between philosophy and the discovery of quantum physics. I do this by focusing on four of the most important contributors to quantum theory: Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and Niels Bohr. Looking to the period immediately preceding the era in which quantum physics was developed, I first explore the scientific writings of Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Mach, Heinrich Hertz and Ludwig Boltzmann. In doing so, I uncover the integral role classic philosophy played in the scientific investigations of nineteenth-century German and Austrian physicists. After establishing the cultural link between scientific writing and philosophic training at that time and place in history, I investigate the formative philosophic influences on Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Bohr. By a close examination of some of their most important scientific papers, this dissertation reveals the way in which these early twentieth-century scientists continued an important nineteenth-century European tradition of integrating philosophic thought in their scientific creative thinking.

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Description Focuses on Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Bohr. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/06 (2006). UMI pub. no. 3222204.


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Authors & Contributors
Camilleri, Kristian
Burwell, Jennifer
Greco, Pietro
Stuewer, Roger H.
Rigden, John S.
Plotnitsky, Arkady
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Theoretical physics
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Complementarity
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
Copenhagen (Denmark)
United States
Paris (France)
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