There is hardly another principle in physics with wider scope of
applicability and more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's
exclusion principle. This book explores the principle's origin in
the atomic spectroscopy of the early 1920s, its subsequent
embedding into quantum mechanics, and later experimental validation
with the development of quantum chromodynamics. The reconstruction
of this crucial historic episode provides an excellent foil to
reconsider Kuhn's view on incommensurability. The author defends
the prospective rationality of the revolutionary transition from
the old to the new quantum theory around 1925 by focusing on the
way Pauli's principle emerged as a phenomenological rule 'deduced'
from some anomalous phenomena and theoretical assumptions of the
old quantum theory. The subsequent process of validation is
historically reconstructed and analysed within the framework of
'dynamic Kantianism'. The variety of themes skilfully interwoven in
this book will appeal to philosophers, historians, scientists and
anyone interested in philosophy.
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