Writings on Physics and Philosophy

by Wolfgang Pauli, Karl von Meyenn, Charles P. Enz

Book Overview

For the first time Pauli's famous articles on the history and philosophy of science are completely translated into English. He writes about complementarity, space, time and causality, about symmetry and the exclusion principle, but also about the role of the unconscious in modern science. Historical essays on Bohr, Ehrenfest, and Einstein and on the history of the neutrino as well as his famous article on Kepler complete the collection. It addresses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 354056859X
• ISBN13: 9783540568599
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully Interesting

This book is a wonderfully interesting series of philosophical writings by one of the foremost quantum physicists. Wolfgang Pauli, one of the originators of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, provides incredibly interesting, if sometimes overly pedantic, philosophical perspectives on a number of issues. One of the more marginalized selections is concerning archetypes and reveals the strong connections that Pauli had with one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychology: Carl Jung. I highly recommend this book for those interested in gaining greater perspective in the depth of thought that was involved in the development of perhaps the most original and groundbreaking theories of physics.