III. Philosophical Aspects of Atomic Theory

Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen

III: An Indeterministic Theory of Time.- I. Philosophical Interpretations of Quantum Physics.- II. The Problem of Causality in an Indeterministic Science.- III. Relativity and the Atom.- IV. Laws of Nature and Time's Arrow.- V. The Symmetry of Time and the Branch Hypothesis.- IV: Universal Aspects of Time.- I. The Measurement of Time.- II. The Ontological Status of Time.- III. The Reality of Time.- IV. The Causal Nature of Time.- V. The Symmetry of Time.- VI. The Psychology of Time.- Conclusion.- Bibliography of Works Cited In Volumes One and Two.- Bibliography Of Writings Of Henry Mehlberg.- Index Of Names To Volumes One And Two.

Enrico Cantore

Joseph Mudry, Norwood Russell Hanson

A. V. Bushkovitch

The prevailing philosophical mood among those physicists today whose interests are mainly in the field of modern atomic theory, is some form of positivism. This is true not only of the leaders in the field of quantum mechanics, as for instance Heisenberg, Jordan, and Dirac, in whose writings on the philosophical aspects of the recent revolutionary advances in physics the positivistic tendency is clearly visible, but also of the rank and file of competent students of the modern quantum theory.