Writings on Physics and Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Pauli (auth.), Professor Dr. Charles P. Enz, Dr. Karl von Meyenn (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Like Bohr, Einstein and Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli was not only a Nobel laureate and one of the creators of modern physics, but also an eminent philosopher of modern science. This is the first book in English to include all his famous articles on physics and epistemology. They were actually translated during Pauli's lifetime by R. Schlapp and are now edited and annotated by Pauli's former assistant Ch. Enz. Pauli writes about the philosophical significance of complementarity, about space,time and causality, symmetry and the exclusion principle, but also about therole of the unconscious in modern science. His famous article on Kepler is included as well as many historical essays on Bohr, Ehrenfest,and Einstein as well as on the influence of the unconscious on scientific theories. The book addresses not only physicists, philosophers and historians of science, but also the general public.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-6
Robert Schlapp (1899–1991)....Pages 7-11
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)....Pages 13-26
Matter....Pages 27-34
The Philosophical Significance of the Idea of Complementarity....Pages 35-42
Probability and Physics....Pages 43-48
Niels Bohr on His 60th Birthday....Pages 49-57
Sommerfeld’s Contributions to Quantum Theory....Pages 59-68
Arnold Sommerfeld....Pages 69-71
Rydberg and the Periodic System of the Elements....Pages 73-77
Paul Ehrenfest....Pages 79-84
Einstein’s Contribution to Quantum Theory....Pages 85-94
Space, Time and Causality in Modern Physics....Pages 95-105
The Theory of Relativity and Science....Pages 107-111
Impressions of Albert Einstein....Pages 113-116
Albert Einstein and the Development of Physics....Pages 117-123
Theory and Experiment....Pages 125-126
Phenomenon and Physical Reality....Pages 127-135
Science and Western Thought....Pages 137-148
Ideas of the Unconscious from the Standpoint of Natural Science and Epistemology....Pages 149-164
Exclusion Principle and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 165-181
The Violation of Reflection Symmetries in the Laws of Atomic Physics....Pages 183-192
On the Earlier and More Recent History of the Neutrino....Pages 193-218
The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler....Pages 219-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-289

✦ Subjects

Physics, general;Mathematics, general;Philosophy