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This special issue of Science and Context examines the entire area
of scientific inquiry surrounding Einstein, presenting
controversies and debates within their contexts.
"Science is rooted in conversations," wrote Werner Heisenberg, one
of the twentieth century's great physicists. In "Quantum Dialogue,
" Mara Beller shows that science is rooted not just in conversation
but in disagreement, doubt, and uncertainty. She argues that it is
precisely this culture of dialogue and controversy within the
scientific community that fuels creativity.
Beller draws her argument from her radical new reading of the
history of the quantum revolution, especially the development of
the Copenhagen interpretation. One of several competing approaches,
this version succeeded largely due to the rhetorical skills of
Niels Bohr and his colleagues. Using extensive archival research,
Beller shows how Bohr and others marketed their views,
misrepresenting and dismissing their opponents as "unreasonable"
and championing their own not always coherent or well-supported
position as "inevitable."
"Quantum Dialogue," winner of the 1999 Morris D. Forkosch Prize of
the "Journal of the History of Ideas, " will fascinate everyone
interested in how stories of "scientific revolutions" are
constructed and "scientific consensus" achieved.
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