Fernández Mouján, Raimundo (2020) Greek philosophy for quantum physics. The return to the Greeks in the works of Heisenberg, Pauli and Schrödinger. [Preprint]
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Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schr�odinger and Wolfgang Pauli exhibited in their works a strong and insistent interest in Greek philosophy. And this interest --they claimed-- was not at all separated from their investigations into the new quantum theory. Heisenberg directly a�rmed that "one could hardly make progress in modern atomic physics without a knowledge of Greek natural philosophy". What does this claim mean? Why do these central �gures in the development of quantum mechanics saw the Greeks as their main inspiring source? Why do they took them as a model for contemporary science, even over their modern predecessors of Enlightenment? This work attempts to answer these questions focusing on three main reasons: the revision of atomism, the recasting of the meaning of "understanding" in physics, and the critique of separations in science.
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| Keywords: | Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger, quantum mechanics, greek philosophy | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Mr. Raimundo Fernández Mouján | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2020 04:09 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2020 04:09 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 17711 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17711 |
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