Arkady Plotnitsky: 4 books
Complementarity
Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1994
Many commentators have remarked in passing on the resonance between deconstructionist theory and certain ideas of quantum physics. In this book, Arkady Plotnitsky rigorously elaborates the similarities and differences between the two by focusing on the work of Niels Bohr and Jacques Derrida. In detailed...
Epistemology and Probability
Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
This book offers an exploration of the relationships between epistemology and probability in the work of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schro- ¨ dinger, and in quantum mechanics and in modern physics as a whole. It also considers the implications of these relationships and of quantum theory...
The Principles of Quantum Theory, From Planck's Quanta to the Higgs Boson
The Nature of Quantum Reality and the Spirit of Copenhagen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The book considers foundational thinking in quantum theory, focusing on the role the fundamental principles and principle thinking there, including thinking that leads to the invention of new principles, which is, the book contends, one of the ultimate achievements of theoretical thinking in physics...
Niels Bohr and Complementarity
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This book offers a discussion of Niels Bohr’s conception of “complementarity,” arguably his greatest contribution to physics and philosophy. By tracing Bohr’s work from his 1913 atomic theory to the introduction and then refinement of the idea of complementarity, and by explicating different...