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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2012

Pages: 139-149

ISBN (Hardback): 9789400744073

Full citation:

, "Does quantum physics refute realism, materialism and determinism?", in: Evaluating philosophies, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Does quantum physics refute realism, materialism and determinism?

pp. 139-149

in: Mario Bunge, Evaluating philosophies, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Abstract

It is generally believed that quantum physics refutes realism, materialism, determinism, and perhaps even rationality. These beliefs, central to the so-called Copenhagen interpretation, were held by the very fathers of the new physics, particularly Niels Bohr (1934), Max Born (1953), Werner Heisenberg (1958), and Wolfgang Pauli (1961).

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2012

Pages: 139-149

ISBN (Hardback): 9789400744073

Full citation:

, "Does quantum physics refute realism, materialism and determinism?", in: Evaluating philosophies, Berlin, Springer, 2012