Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgment

A Transcendental Foundation of Quantum Objectivity

Hernán Pringe

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110196115
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110971750
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy

In der Reihe werden herausragende monographische Untersuchungen und Sammelbände zu allen Aspekten der Philosophie Kants veröffentlicht, ebenso zum systematischen Verhältnis seiner Philosophie zu anderen philosophischen Ansätzen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Veröffentlicht werden Studien, die einen innovativen Charakter haben und ausdrückliche Desiderate der Forschung erfüllen. Die Publikationen repräsentieren damit den aktuellsten Stand der Forschung.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Part I Kantian Preliminaries
• 1 Kant on the Concepts of Analogy and Symbol
• 1.1 Analogies of Experience
• 1.2 Symbolic Analogies
• 1.3 Conclusions
• Part II The Conceptual Development of Bohr’s Thought
• 2 Correspondence
• 2.1 The Germ of Correspondence: The Hydrogen Atom
• 2.2 The Development of Correspondence: Multiperiodic Systems
• 2.3 The Crisis of Correspondence: The Bohr-Kramers-Slater Theory
• 2.4 Conclusions
• 3 Complementarity
• 3.1 Quantum Objects Are Not Directly Presentable in Intuition
• 3.2 Quantum Objects Are Indirectly Presentable in Intuition
• 3.3 Uncertainty Relations, Complementarity and Symbolism
• 3.4 Measurement and Definition
• 3.5 Matrix and Wave Mechanics
• 3.6 Conclusions
• 4 The Symbolic Character of Quantum Theory and the EPR Paper
• 4.1 The EPR Argument
• 4.2 The Insufficiency of Operationalism
• 4.3 An Example: A Position Measurement
• 4.4 The Ambiguity of EPR’s Realism
• 4.5 Bohr’s Criterion of Reality
• 4.6 Objective Validity and Objective Reality of the Concept of a Quantum Object
• 4.7 The Completeness of Quantum Theory
• 4.8 Conclusions
• 5. Between Kant and Bohr: Harald Høffding
• 5.1 Bohr on Symbolic Knowledge
• 5.2 Symbol in the Broad Sense
• 5.3 Symbol in the Strict Sense
• 5.4 Conclusions
• Part III A Transcendental Foundation of Quantum Objectivity
• 6 Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgment
• 6.1 Analytic of the Quantum Power of Judgment
• 6.2 Dialectic of the Quantum Power of Judgment
• 6.3 Methodology of the Quantum Power of Judgment
• 6.4 Appendix: Bohr on Purposiveness and Complementarity
• 6.5 Conclusions
• 7 On Other Transcendental Approaches to Quantum Mechanics
• 7.1 Cassirer’s Concept of Symbol and Quantum Theory
• 7.2 Hermanns Fragmentation of Truth
• 7.3 Mittelstaedt’s Non-Objectively Real Objects
• 7.4 Bitbol’s Pragmatic-Transcendental Approach
• 7.5 Petitot’s Transcendental Aesthetic of Hilbert Space
• 7.6 Strohmeyer, Infinite Judgments and the Principle of Complete Determination
• 7.7 Von Weizsäcker’s Transcendental Foundation of Quantum Theory
• 7.8 Conclusions
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Author index