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Schroedinger's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Schroedinger's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 188
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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 these writings
to figure out their significance. The few available studies about
SchrOdinger's interpretation of quantum mechanics are generally
excellent, but almost entirely restricted to the initial period
1925-1927. Very little work has been done on Schrodinger's late
views on the theory he contributed to create and develop. The
generally accepted view is that he never really recovered from his
interpretative failure of 1926-1927, and that his late reflections
(during the 1950's) are little more than an expression of his
rising nostalgia for the lost ideal of picturing the world, not to
say for some favourite traditional picture. But the content and
style of Schrodinger's texts of the 1950's do not agree at all with
this melancholic appraisal; they rather set the stage for a
thorough renewal of accepted representations. In order to elucidate
this paradox, I adopted several strategies.
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