Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Permissions and Copyright Notices
- Permissions and Copyright Notices
- Part I Main Contributions to the EPR Debate in 1935
- 1 Einstein on EPR
- 2 Others on EPR
- 3 Schrödinger on EPR
- 4 Heisenberg on EPR
- 5 Bohr on EPR
- Part II Selected Pre-EPR Papers
- 6 Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics
- 7 On the Indeterminacy Relation
- 8 Bohr.Einstein Example
- Part III Core EPR Papers
- 9 Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?
- 10 Discussion of Probability Relations Between Separated Systems
- 11 The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics
- 12 Note on the Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Measurement
- 13 Remarks on Measurements in Quantum Theory
- 14 Is a Deterministic Completion of Quantum Mechanics Possible?
- 15 The Natural-Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Excerpt)
- 16 Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?
- Part IV Other Reactions to EPR
- 17 The Correlation of Wave Functions with the States of Physical Systems
- 18 States and Reality of Physical Systems
- 19 Quantum Mechanics as a Physical Theory
- 20 The Observation of Canonically Conjugates
- 21 Quantum Mechanics and Physical Reality
- 22 Is the Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Complete?
- 23 Physical Reality and Quantum Mechanics
- 24 Quantum-Mechanical Description
- 25 Quantum Mechanics and Physical Reality
- Part V Correspondence
- 26 Correspondence on the ‘Einstein Paradox’
- Envoi
- References
- Index
15 - The Natural-Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Excerpt)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Permissions and Copyright Notices
- Permissions and Copyright Notices
- Part I Main Contributions to the EPR Debate in 1935
- 1 Einstein on EPR
- 2 Others on EPR
- 3 Schrödinger on EPR
- 4 Heisenberg on EPR
- 5 Bohr on EPR
- Part II Selected Pre-EPR Papers
- 6 Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics
- 7 On the Indeterminacy Relation
- 8 Bohr.Einstein Example
- Part III Core EPR Papers
- 9 Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?
- 10 Discussion of Probability Relations Between Separated Systems
- 11 The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics
- 12 Note on the Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Measurement
- 13 Remarks on Measurements in Quantum Theory
- 14 Is a Deterministic Completion of Quantum Mechanics Possible?
- 15 The Natural-Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Excerpt)
- 16 Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?
- Part IV Other Reactions to EPR
- 17 The Correlation of Wave Functions with the States of Physical Systems
- 18 States and Reality of Physical Systems
- 19 Quantum Mechanics as a Physical Theory
- 20 The Observation of Canonically Conjugates
- 21 Quantum Mechanics and Physical Reality
- 22 Is the Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Complete?
- 23 Physical Reality and Quantum Mechanics
- 24 Quantum-Mechanical Description
- 25 Quantum Mechanics and Physical Reality
- Part V Correspondence
- 26 Correspondence on the ‘Einstein Paradox’
- Envoi
- References
- Index
Summary
This is a translation of the excerpts published in Naturwissenschaften of Grete Hermann’s 1935 essay on philosophy of quantum mechanics, recently translated into English. Her main thesis, in line with her natural-philosophical training and neo-Kantian commitments, is to argue that quantum mechanics does not refute the principle of causality. Quantum mechanics cannot be completed by, hidden variables, because it is already causally complete (albeit retroductively). In establishing this provocative thesis, she makes important use of Bohr’s principles of correspondence and complementarity and of Weizsäcker's version of the gamma-ray microscope, arguing that the lesson of quantum mechanics is the impossibility of an absolute description of nature independent of the context of observation.
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- The Einstein ParadoxThe Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935, pp. 235 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024