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15 - The Natural-Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Excerpt)
Guido Bacciagaluppi, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Elise Crull, City College, City University of New York
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The Einstein Paradox

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14 November 2024

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28 November 2024, pp 235-243
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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.