THE IMPACT OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF NIELS BOHR ON THE CHARACTER OF COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

• Authors: Butryn S.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper shows that Bohr's philosophical views were formed by the Danish existentialism and the American pragmatism. These currents had impact on Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics. There is, for example, a similarity between Kierkegaard's philosophical theory of jumps and Bohr's conception of the existence of unforeseeable and completely discontinuous quantum change of energy level in atoms. In Bohr's new philosophical ideas also impact of W. James' views may be traced. Under that influence, there originated such Bohr's ideas as thesis on the arbitrariness of border between observer and the object observed or the idea of uncontrollable interaction between both of them

Keywords

EN

BOHR'S PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS; PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY OF JUMPS

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 4(162)
• Pages: 699-711
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Butryn S.

• S. Butryn, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA0023507