A reinterpretation of Heisenberg's Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms.

Autor: Kaveh S; Independent Scholar, 7464 Bigtooth Maple Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80925, USA. Electronic address: shaahinkaaveh@gmail.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Studies in history and philosophy of science [Stud Hist Philos Sci] 2024 Oct; Vol. 107, pp. 43-53. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 12.
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.07.002
Abstrakt: There has been a lot of discussion about Heisenberg's Umdeutung paper of 1925, which is universally credited as the first formulation of modern quantum mechanics. Much of this discussion has been characterized by puzzlement over the manner in which Heisenberg arrived at his formulation, supposedly through Bohr's atomic theory in conjunction with two philosophical principles, namely the Correspondence Principle and the Observability Principle. I provide textual, contextual, and philosophical evidence that the "prescriptive-dynamical framework" - recently advocated in the literature on independent grounds - is the perfect perspective from which to understand Heisenberg's work and the significance of the two principles he utilized to arrive at it.
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