Writings On Physics And Philosophy

Like Bohr Einstein and Heisenberg Wolfgang Pauli was notonly a Nobel laureateand one of the creators of modernphysics but also an eminent philosopher ofmodern s... » 

Like Bohr Einstein and Heisenberg Wolfgang Pauli was notonly a Nobel laureateand one of the creators of modernphysics but also an eminent philosopher ofmodern science.This is the first book in English to include all hisfamousarticles on physics and epistemology. They were actuallytranslated duringPaulis lifetime by R. Schlapp and are nowedited and annotated by Paulisformer assistant Ch. Enz.Pauli writes about the philosophical significanceofcomplementarity about spacetime and causality symmetryand the exclusionprinciple but also about therole of theunconscious in modern science. Hisfamous article on Kepleris included as well as many historical essays onBohrEhrenfestand Einstein as well as on the influence of theunconscious onscientific theories.The book addresses not only physicists philosophersandhistorians of science but also the general public. «