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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1.; 2.; References; Part One Understanding Bohr's Philosophical Background; 1 Why Do We Find Bohr Obscure? Reading Bohr as a Philosopher of Experiment ; 1. Introduction; 2. A historiographical overview: The challenges of reading Bohr; Bohr's obscurity: Early philosophical interpretations; How should we read Bohr? Historiographical approaches; 3. Niels Bohr as philosopher of experiment; The doctrine of classical concepts and the epistemology of experiment; Functional versus dynamical accounts of the experimental apparatus
Quantum objects and classical concepts4. Conclusions; Archival sources and abbreviations; Notes; References; 2 On Bohr's Transcendental Research Program; 1. Introduction; 2. Should classical physics be a permanent component of the foundations of quantum physics?; 3. Kant's and Bohr's Copernican revolutions; 4. Complementarity about what?; 5. Transcendental versus naturalized approaches to measurement; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Transcendental versus Quantitative Meanings of Bohr's Complementarity Principle; 1. Some general considerations concerning Bohr's principle of complementarity
The three meanings of Bohr's complementarityThe transcendental framework of complementarity; Einstein's objection; 2. Quantitative complementarity and intermediate situations; 3. The Afshar experiment and the alleged violation of the principle of complementarity; 4. By way of conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; 4 Complementarity and Pragmatic Epistemology: A Comparison of Bohr and C. I. Lewis ; 1. Pragmatism-influences and affinities; 2. Kantianism and pragmatism in Bohr and Lewis; 3. Bohr and Lewis on the growth of knowledge; 4. Sense meaning and the classical concepts; 5. Conclusion
NotesReferences; 5 Complementarity and Human Nature; 1. Classical concepts; 2. Bohr's contextualism; 3. Beyond classical concepts; 4. The measurement problem; 5. Realism and representationalism; Conclusion; Note; References; 6 Bohr's Relational Holism and the Classical-Quantum Interaction; 1. Introduction: A conflict in Bohr's philosophy?; 2. Bohr's recourse to classical concepts; 3. Bohr's relational holism and the classical-quantum interaction; Notes; References; 7 Complementarity as a Route to Inferentialism; 1. Introduction; 2. Ordinary concepts and quantum probabilities
3. The controversy over the status of the "agency of measurement"4. From the "external" observer to metasemantics; Notes; References; 8 Fragmentation, Multiplicity, and Technology in Quantum Physics: Bohr's Thought from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centu; 1. Introduction; 2. Fragmentation, complementarity, and the unrepresentable; 3. The unrepresentable and the multiple; 4. "The question concerning technology": From Bohr to Heidegger and from Heidegger to Bohr; Notes; References; Part Two Bohr's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Twenty-First-Century Physics
Quantum objects and classical concepts4. Conclusions; Archival sources and abbreviations; Notes; References; 2 On Bohr's Transcendental Research Program; 1. Introduction; 2. Should classical physics be a permanent component of the foundations of quantum physics?; 3. Kant's and Bohr's Copernican revolutions; 4. Complementarity about what?; 5. Transcendental versus naturalized approaches to measurement; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Transcendental versus Quantitative Meanings of Bohr's Complementarity Principle; 1. Some general considerations concerning Bohr's principle of complementarity
The three meanings of Bohr's complementarityThe transcendental framework of complementarity; Einstein's objection; 2. Quantitative complementarity and intermediate situations; 3. The Afshar experiment and the alleged violation of the principle of complementarity; 4. By way of conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; 4 Complementarity and Pragmatic Epistemology: A Comparison of Bohr and C. I. Lewis ; 1. Pragmatism-influences and affinities; 2. Kantianism and pragmatism in Bohr and Lewis; 3. Bohr and Lewis on the growth of knowledge; 4. Sense meaning and the classical concepts; 5. Conclusion
NotesReferences; 5 Complementarity and Human Nature; 1. Classical concepts; 2. Bohr's contextualism; 3. Beyond classical concepts; 4. The measurement problem; 5. Realism and representationalism; Conclusion; Note; References; 6 Bohr's Relational Holism and the Classical-Quantum Interaction; 1. Introduction: A conflict in Bohr's philosophy?; 2. Bohr's recourse to classical concepts; 3. Bohr's relational holism and the classical-quantum interaction; Notes; References; 7 Complementarity as a Route to Inferentialism; 1. Introduction; 2. Ordinary concepts and quantum probabilities
3. The controversy over the status of the "agency of measurement"4. From the "external" observer to metasemantics; Notes; References; 8 Fragmentation, Multiplicity, and Technology in Quantum Physics: Bohr's Thought from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centu; 1. Introduction; 2. Fragmentation, complementarity, and the unrepresentable; 3. The unrepresentable and the multiple; 4. "The question concerning technology": From Bohr to Heidegger and from Heidegger to Bohr; Notes; References; Part Two Bohr's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Twenty-First-Century Physics