Between Rationalism and Empiricism: Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics

Between Rationalism and Empiricism......Page 3
ISBN 0387985204......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
I. Between Rationalism and Empiricism......Page 9
1.1 Remarks on the Concept of Cause......Page 12
1.2 Aspects of Wholeness in Science and Philosophy......Page 31
1.3 Kant\'s Apriorism and Some Modern Positions......Page 44
1.4 C. F. von Weizsacker and the Unity of Physics......Page 62
1.5 Between Rationalism and Empiricism: The Path of Physics......Page 77
II. The Philosophy of the Physicists......Page 95
11.6 The Physicists\' Conception of Progress......Page 98
11.7 Erwin Schrodinger and the Philosophy of the Physicists......Page 116
11.8 Albert Einstein: Theory, Experience, Reality......Page 127
11.9 Heisenberg\'s Concept of a Closed Theory......Page 144
11.10 The Origin of Scientific Realism: Boltzmann, Planck, Einstein......Page 150
III. Reconstruction......Page 164
111.11 On the Structure of Physical Theories......Page 167
111.12 A Comparison of Two Recent Views on Theories......Page 182
111.13 Towards a Rehabilitation of Reconstructionism......Page 202
111.14 Paul Feyerabend and Rational Reconstructions......Page 219
IV. Laws of Nature......Page 235
IV.15 Coherence and Contingency.Two Neglected Aspects of Theory Succession......Page 238
IV.16 Predication and Physical Law......Page 252
IV.17 Substances, Physical Systems, and Quantum Mechanics......Page 267
IV.18 General Laws of Nature and the Uniqueness of the Universe......Page 282
IV.19 On Limitations of Physical Knowledge......Page 295
v. Reduction......Page 308
V.20 The Explanation of Kepler\'s Laws by Means of Newton\'s Law of Gravitation......Page 311
V.21 Are There Explanations of Theories?......Page 329
V.22 A Case Study Concerning the Limiting Case Relation in Quantum Mechanics......Page 344
V.23 A New Theory of Reduction in Physics......Page 357
V.24 The Rationality of Reductionism......Page 374
VI. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics......Page 383
VI.25 Quantum Logic and Some Aspects of Logic in General......Page 387
VI.26 What Kind of Hidden Variables Are Excluded by Bell\'s Inequality?......Page 395
VI.27 The Copenhagen School and Its Opponents......Page 406
VI.28 J. von Neumann\'s and J. S. Bell\'s Theorem. A Comparison......Page 423
VI.29 EPR-Situation and Bell\'s Inequality......Page 438
VI.30 Three Remarks Concerning Bell\'s Inequality......Page 449
VII. Spacetime, Invariance, Covariance......Page 456
VII.31 Invariance and Covariance......Page 460
VII.32 Hermann Weyl and the Nature of Spacetime......Page 478
VII.33 Covariance and the Non-Preference of Coordinate Systems......Page 493
VII.34 A Most General Principle of Invariance......Page 504
VIII. Mathematics and Physics......Page 516
VIII.35 Kant\'s Philosophy of Mathematics......Page 520
VIII.36 Mathematics and Physical Axiomatization......Page 538
VIII.37 Calculemus! The Problem of the Application of Logic and Mathematics......Page 556
VIII.38 The Mathematical Overdetermination of Physics......Page 574
Acknowledgements......Page 587
Literature......Page 592
Index......Page 625