Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Volume I:

Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature

Written from 1925-1929, these essays explain to a general audience the details of the emerging theory in physics. These writings illuminate the transition from classical physics to quantum theory, and probe the philosophical consequences of this transition.


Volume II:

Essays 1932-1957

On Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

This volume extends the new physics and its underlying epistemology to inquire into the nature of biology, anthropology, and philosophy. Bohr explores the possibilities and limitations of human thought in a variety of fields. This volume also contains the famous 1949 essay, "Discussion with Einstein."


Volume III:

Essays 1958-1962

On Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

Bohr here states his mature views on such subjects as complementarity, the limitations of human knowledge, and the problems that arise in biology from "the practically inexhaustible complexity of the organism." Included are anecdotes on the entire pantheon of scientists who changed, at the deepest level, the frontiers of knowledge in our time.


Volume IV:

Causality and Complementarity

Supplementary papers edited by Jan Faye and Henry J. Folse

In volumes I, II, and III Bohr collected his major philosophical ideas. In this volume, scholars Faye and Folse have carefully reviewed all of Bohr's writings to select additional works that expand our understanding of the subtleties of his thinking in the philosophical foundations of physics and other areas of modern thought.

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