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Physics Bulletin

Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics

Rjc Brown

Published Nov 1, 1957• 96 citations
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By Ernst Cassirer New Haven : Yale University Press. London : Oxford University Press Ltd. Pp. xxiv + 227. Price 40s. Owing to the death of the author, this good translation of the 1936 German text does not contain a projected final chapter on developments concerning the causality problem during the last twenty years. Professor Margenau, who had agreed to collaborate in writing this last chapter, contributes an important Preface in which he shows that the depth of Cassirer's analysis was ahead of his time.

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10.1088/0031-9112/8/11/005

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As with any scientific revolution, quantum mechanics entailed a profound revision of our fundamental epistemological concepts and also of our worldview as a whole. This was the case for the concepts of causality and reality. Around these concepts, there arose in the third decade of the last century a heated debate in which almost all the scientists and philosophers of the time took part and which in a certain sense is still going on today. The Author provides a reconstruction of the various different positions, from the conservative attempt to defend determinism to the most radical stochastic positions, and singles out in Ernst Cassirer’s solution the most convincing approach.