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Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity - A Study of the Physical Philosophy of Werner Heisenberg (Paperback, 1965 ed.)
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Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity - A Study of the Physical Philosophy of Werner Heisenberg (Paperback, 1965 ed.)
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Quantum mechanics has raised in an acute form three problems which
go to the heart of man's relationship with nature through
experimental science: (r) the public objectivity of science, that
is, its value as a universal science for all investigators; (2) the
empirical objectivity of scientific objects, that is, man's ability
to construct a precise or causal spatio-temporal model of
microscopic systems; and finally (3), the formal objectivity of
science, that is, its value as an expression of what nature is
independently of its being an object of human knowledge. These are
three aspects of what is generally called the "crisis of objec
tivity" or the "crisis of realism" in modern physics. This crisis
is. studied in the light of Werner Heisenberg's work. Heisenberg
was one of the architects of quantum mechanics, and we have chosen
his writings as the principal source-material for this study. Among
physicists of the microscopic domain, no one except perhaps Bohr
has expressed himself so abundantly and so profoundly on the
philosophy of science as Heisenberg. His writings, both technical
and non-technical, show an awareness of the mysterious element in
scientific knowledge, far from the facile positivism of Bohr and
others of his contemporaries. The mystery of human knowledge and
human SUbjectivity is for him an abiding source of wonder."
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