Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Complementarity, Quantum Mechanics, and Interpretation. 1: Complementarity, Epistemology, and Quantum Mechanics as an Information Theory. 1.1. The No-Continuum Hypothesis. 1.2. Quantum Epistemology and Quantum Information. 1.3. From Heisenberg's New Kinematics to Bohr's Complementarity. 1.4. Complementarity, Phenomena, and the Double-Slit Experiment. 1.5. From Bohr's Atoms to Qubits. 1.6. Bohr's Epistemology and Decoherence. 1.7. The Epistemological Lesson of Quantum Mechanics 2: Complementarity, Quantum Variables, and the Relationships between Mathematics and Physics. 2.1. Translations: from Classical to Quantum Mechanics. 2.2. Transformations: from Geometry to Algebra. 2.3. Relations: between Mechanics and Mathematics. 3: Complementarity, Quantum Entanglement, and Locality. 3.1. 'The Peculiar Individuality of Quantum Effects'. 3.2. Formalism, Phenomena, and the 'Cut'. 3.3. EPR's Argument and Bohr's Response. 4: Complementarity, Chance, and Probability. 4.1. Chance and Probability in Classical and Quantum Mechanics. 4.2. Radical Epistemology and Irreducible Probability. 5: Complementarity, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Field Theory. 5.1. Bohr, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Field Theory: History and Philosophy. 5.2. Creation and Annihilation of Particles: 'Perhaps the Biggest of All the Big Changes in Physics in our Century'. 5.3. 'The Atomic Structure of the Measuring Instruments': Quantum Field Theory, Measurement, and Epistemology. 6: From Physics to Philosophy, from Philosophy and Physics. 6.1. Introduction: Thought, Knowledge, and Concepts in Physics and Philosophy. 6.2. Nonclassical Epistemology and Its Concepts. 6.3. Epistemology and Invention of Concepts: Bohr and Einstein between Kant and Hegel. 6.4. The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics and the Critique of Concepts in Heisenberg. 6.5. 'The basic Principles of Science': Nonclassical Epistemology, Scientific Disciplinarity, and the Philosophy of Physics.6.6. Conclusion: Chaosmic Orders. References. Name Index. Subject Index.