Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein - Two Complementary Views

List of contents

• 1: Prelude: The modern stance


• 2: Twilight of the gods


• 3: The view from Copenhagen


• 4: Epistemological interlude


• 5: Wittgenstein enters the scene


• 6: Shaky foundations


• 7: Physics interface


• 8: Philosophical consequences


• 9: Metaphysics and reality


• 10: Concluding epilogue

About the author

Stig Stenholm has carried out distinguished work in quantum optics for 40 years, holding professorships and research positions at the universities of Stuttgart and Helsinki, at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California, and at the Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, before his retirement from KTH Stockholm in 2004. He has received the Alexander von Humboldt Award, Germany, and The Homén Prize in Physics from the Societas Scientiarum Fennica.

Summary

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview. Quantum theorist Stig Stenholm presents Bohr and Wittgenstein as central figures undertaking the necessary replacement of apparent order and certainty with an understanding based on limited concepts in constant flux.

Product details

• Authors: Stig Stenholm, Stig (Royal Institute of Technology (Kth Stenholm, Stig (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stenholm, Stenholm Stig
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2015
• EAN: 9780198729105
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872910-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Western philosophy from c 1800, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge