Between Rationalism and Empiricism

Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics

By: Erhard Scheibe, Brigitte Falkenburg (Editor)

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Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science. He has written extensively on all the problems that confront the philosophy of mathematics and physics: rationalism versus empiricism, the laws of nature, and reductionism. He has published books on the logical foundations of quantum mechanics and on the reduction of physical theories. Little of his work has been translated into English. This collection of 38 essays is intended to remedy this omission and to help to make Erhard Scheibe's philosophical ideas better known to an international audience.

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"This volume contains 38 selected papers by Erhard Scheibe. ... This book is highly recommended to all physicists who like to contemplate about their science. The author ... knows the language of mathematicians and physicists and explains the philosophy in a very readable and illuminating style. The topics of the collected articles meet central points of the philosophy of nature, the theory of knowledge, and the theory of science." (K.-E. Hellwig, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1088 (14), 2006)

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Between Rationalism and Empiricism	p. 1
Remarks on the Concept of Cause (1969)	p. 4
Aspects of Wholeness in Science and Philosophy (1987)	p. 23
Kant's Apriorism and Some Modern Positions (1988)	p. 36
C. F. von Weizsacker and the Unity of Physics (1993)	p. 54
Between Rationalism and Empiricism: The Path of Physics (1994)	p. 69
The Philosophy of the Physicists	p. 87
The Physicists' Conception of Progress (1988)	p. 90
Erwin Schrodinger and the Philosophy of the Physicists (1991)	p. 108
Albert Einstein: Theory, Experience, Reality (1992)	p. 119
Heisenberg's Concept of a Closed Theory (1993)	p. 136
The Origin of Scientific Realism: Boltzmann, Planck, Einstein (1995)	p. 142
Reconstruction	p. 157
On the Structure of Physical Theories (1979)	p. 160
A Comparison of Two Recent Views on Theories (1982)	p. 175
Towards a Rehabilitation of Reconstructionism (1984)	p. 195
Paul Feyerabend and Rational Reconstructions (1988)	p. 212
Laws of Nature	p. 229
Coherence and Contingency. Two Neglected Aspects of Theory Succession (1989)	p. 232
Predication and Physical Law (1991)	p. 246
Substances, Physical Systems, and Quantum Mechanics (1991)	p. 261
General Laws of Nature and the Uniqueness of the Universe (1991)	p. 276
On Limitations of Physical Knowledge (1998)	p. 289
Reduction	p. 303
The Explanation of Kepler's Laws (1973)	p. 306
Are There Explanations of Theories? (1976)	p. 324
A Case Study Concerning the Limiting Case Relation in Quantum Mechanics (1981)	p. 339
A New Theory of Reduction in Physics (1993)	p. 352
The Rationality of Reductionism (1995)	p. 369
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics	p. 379
Quantum Logic and Some Aspects of Logic in General (1985)	p. 383
What Kind of Hidden Variables Are Excluded by Bell's Inequality? (1986)	p. 391
The Copenhagen School and Its Opponents (1990)	p. 402
J. von Neumann's and J. S. Bell's Theorem. A Comparison (1991)	p. 419
EPR-Situation and Bell's Inequality (1991)	p. 434
Three Remarks Concerning Bell's Inequality (1993)	p. 445
Spacetime, Invariance, Covariance	p. 453
Invariance and Covariance (1982)	p. 457
Hermann Weyl and the Nature of Spacetime (1988)	p. 475
Covariance and the Non-Preference of Coordinate Systems (1991)	p. 490
A Most General Principle of Invariance (1994)	p. 501
Mathematics and Physics	p. 513
Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics (1977)	p. 517
Mathematics and Physical Axiomatization (1986)	p. 535
Calculemus! The Problem of the Application of Logic and Mathematics (1988)	p. 553
The Mathematical Overdetermination of Physics (1997)	p. 571
Acknowledgements	p. 585
Literature	p. 591
Index	p. 625
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