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Schrodinger S Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
Michael Bitbol
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Hardcover. Offering an account of Schrodinger's successive interpretations of quantum mechanics, culminating in their final synthesis in the 1950s, this title analyzes his original position in the realism-anti-realism debate. His views on the wave-corpuscle issue are contrasted with Bohr's, and his conceptions of the measurement problem are compared. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 594.
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 into the interpretation of quantum mechanics, and they provided several ideas which were missing or elusively expressed in SchrOdinger's published papers and books of the same period. However, they were likely to be misinterpreted out of their context. The problem was that current scholarship could not help very much the reader of ... Read more
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 into the interpretation of quantum mechanics, and they provided several ideas which were missing or elusively expressed in SchrOdinger's published papers and books of the same period. However, they were likely to be misinterpreted out of their context. The problem was that current scholarship could not help very much the reader of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792342663
SKU
V9780792342663
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