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Recasting reality : Wolfgang Pauli's philosophical ideas and contemporary science

Harald Atmanspacher A, Hans Primas

Published Jan 1, 2010• 30 citations
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Describing Wolfgang Pauli's philosophical views is a delicate matter. In addition to his extensive study of Kepler, Pauli published only short epistemological articles (not available in English translation). His extraordinarily wide correspondence is the best source for understanding Pauli's philosophical thought. Forming a coherent picture of Pauli's philosophy on the basis of his correspondence is, however, like doing a puzzle where half of the pieces are missing. The author has been doing this puzzle for more than ten years, inspired by the exceptionally profound ideas presented in the available documents, and wish to draw more general attention to Pauli's philosophy. The article aims at describing the conception of reality which Pauli shaped on the basis of quantum theory. It points out in particular that philosophical and psychological viewpoints which Pauli has emphasised, are inconsistent with important trends in basic research today. Characteristic quotations from Pauli's writings, related to the questions discussed, are given in the appendix.
Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schr�odinger and Wolfgang Pauli exhibited in their works a strong and insistent interest in Greek philosophy. And this interest --they claimed-- was not at all separated from their investigations into the new quantum theory. Heisenberg directly a�rmed that "one could hardly make progress in modern atomic physics without a knowledge of Greek natural philosophy". What does this claim mean? Why do these central �gures in the development of quantum mechanics saw the Greeks as their main inspiring source? Why do they took them as a model for contemporary science, even over their modern predecessors of Enlightenment? This work attempts to answer these questions focusing on three main reasons: the revision of atomism, the recasting of the meaning of "understanding" in physics, and the critique of separations in science.