Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. Here the texts of some of his most famous lectures are made available for the first time in many years. As Roger Penrose's foreword confirms, they are as relevant today as when they were first published.
Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. Here the texts of some of his most famous lectures are made available for the first time in many years. As Roger Penrose's foreword confirms, they are as relevant today as when they were first published.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century.
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Foreword Part I. Nature and the Greeks: 1. The motives for returning to ancient thought 2. The competition, reason v. senses 3. The Pythagoreans 4. The Ionian enlightenment 5. The religion of Xenophanes, Heraclitus of Ephesus 6. The atomists 7. What are the special features? Part II. Science and Humanism: 1. The spiritual bearing of science on life 2. The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import 3. A radical change in our ideas of matter 4. Form, not substance, the fundamental concept 5. The nature of our 'models' 6. Continuous descriptions and causality 7. The intricacy of the continuum 8. The makeshift of wave mechanics 9. The alleged breakdown of the barrier between subject and object 10. Atoms or quanta - the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum 11. Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance? 12. The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr Literature.
Foreword Part I. Nature and the Greeks: 1. The motives for returning to ancient thought 2. The competition, reason v. senses 3. The Pythagoreans 4. The Ionian enlightenment 5. The religion of Xenophanes, Heraclitus of Ephesus 6. The atomists 7. What are the special features? Part II. Science and Humanism: 1. The spiritual bearing of science on life 2. The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import 3. A radical change in our ideas of matter 4. Form, not substance, the fundamental concept 5. The nature of our 'models' 6. Continuous descriptions and causality 7. The intricacy of the continuum 8. The makeshift of wave mechanics 9. The alleged breakdown of the barrier between subject and object 10. Atoms or quanta - the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum 11. Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance? 12. The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr Literature.
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