Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | |
Wave-particle duality | p. 1 |
The quantum hypothesis | p. 1 |
Einstein's hypothesis of light-quanta | p. 5 |
Wave-particle duality, 1905-10 | p. 7 |
Wave-particle duality, 1911-22 | p. 10 |
The Compton effect | p. 12 |
Niels Bohr and wave-particle duality | p. 16 |
Bohr and the 'old' quantum theory | p. 16 |
Bohr's attitude to the light-quantum hypothesis | p. 19 |
Bohr's attitude to the Compton effect | p. 22 |
The Bohr--Kramers--Slater theory | p. 23 |
The failure of spatio-temporal pictures | p. 29 |
Discontinuity and univisualisability | p. 31 |
From duality to complementarity | p. 34 |
A matter of waves | p. 34 |
Quantum mechanics and the correspondence principle | p. 37 |
The continuity-discontinuity duality | p. 44 |
The uncertainty principle | p. 46 |
Complementarity: summer 1927 | p. 54 |
The meaning of complementarity | p. 57 |
Wave-particle complementarity and kinematic-dynamic complementarity | p. 58 |
Complementarity and consistency | p. 61 |
The correlations between the two kinds of complementarity | p. 66 |
The ontological significance of wave-particle complementarity | p. 67 |
Models and visualisability | p. 71 |
Bohr's view of models | p. 74 |
A critique of wave-particle complementarity | p. 77 |
The foundations of kinematic-dynamic complementarity | p. 80 |
The mutual exclusiveness of kinematic and dynamic properties | p. 80 |
The indeterminability of the measurement interaction | p. 85 |
The distinction between object and instrument | p. 87 |
Wholeness: the integrity of the conditions of observation | p. 90 |
The nature of observation | p. 94 |
The 'cut' and the classical concepts | p. 97 |
The necessity of describing the instrument in classical terms | p. 99 |
The microphenomenalist reading | p. 103 |
Observation and objectivity | p. 104 |
A brief assessment of Bohr's argument | p. 108 |
Bohr's theory of measurement | p. 109 |
The objective-values theory of measurement | p. 109 |
The measurement problem | p. 112 |
The solution to the Bohrian measurement puzzle | p. 114 |
Bohr's interpretation of the state vector | p. 118 |
Von Neumann's theory of measurement | p. 122 |
The subjective theory of measurement | p. 126 |
Difficulties with the objective-values theory | p. 128 |
Bohr's theory of properties | p. 134 |
The interactive-properties theory | p. 134 |
The dispositional-properties theory | p. 135 |
The relational-properties theory | p. 137 |
The positivist argument for the indefinability thesis | p. 139 |
The ontic argument for the indefinability thesis | p. 140 |
The semantic argument for the indefinability thesis | p. 145 |
The substance of the semantic argument | p. 147 |
Difficulties with the strong meaning condition | p. 149 |
The logic of the semantic argument | p. 152 |
Einstein versus Bohr | p. 155 |
The fifth Solvay Conference, 1927 | p. 155 |
The sixth Solvay Conference, 1930 | p. 157 |
Einstein's delayed-choice experiment | p. 161 |
The EPR experiment | p. 163 |
The EPR argument | p. 165 |
Bohr's response to the EPR argument | p. 168 |
Einstein's response to Bohr's defence | p. 172 |
A preliminary summing-up | p. 175 |
The sequel to the Bohr-Einstein debate | p. 179 |
Completeness and hidden states | p. 179 |
Completeness and non-locality | p. 181 |
The scope of non-locality | p. 185 |
Value independence and separability | p. 189 |
The Bohrian response to the Bell--Wigner argument | p. 191 |
Einstein's philosophy of physics | p. 195 |
Bohr's philosophy of physics | p. 200 |
Realism in the interpretation of physics | p. 200 |
Bohr and scientific realism | p. 207 |
Bohr and empirical realism | p. 210 |
A weaker form of realism | p. 213 |
The mathematical structure of physical reality | p. 216 |
Bohr: an instrumentalistic realist | p. 222 |
The philosophical grounds of the indefinability thesis | p. 222 |
Hoffding and the historical roots of Bohr's pragmatism | p. 225 |
The Kantian elements in Bohr's philosophy | p. 229 |
The pragmatist strain | p. 231 |
An appraisal of Bohr's philosophy of physics | p. 236 |
Einstein or Bohr? The final verdict | p. 236 |
The notions of correspondence and complementarity | p. 243 |
Alternatives to Bohr's theory of matter and radiation | p. 245 |
Many worlds and quantum logic | p. 248 |
Notes | p. 259 |
Index | p. 288 |
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