Writings on Physics and Philosophy

For the first time Pauli's famous articles on the history and philosophy of science are completely translated into English. He writes about complementarity, space, time and causality, about symmetry and the exclusion principle, but also about the role of the unconscious in modern science. Historical essays on Bohr, Ehrenfest, and Einstein and on the history of the neutrino as well as his famous article on Kepler complete the collection. It addresses physicists, philosophers and historians of science as well as a more general public.

Robert Schlapp (1899-1991) By Nicholas Kemmer.- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958): A Biographical Introduction. By Charles P Enz.- 1 Matter.- 2 The Philosophical Significance of the Idea of Complementarity.- 3 Probability and Physics.- 4 Niels Bohr on His 60th Birthday.- 5 Sommerfeld's Contributions to Quantum Theory.- 6 Arnold Sommerfeld .- 7 Rydberg and the Periodic System of the Elements.- 8 Paul Ehrenfest .- 9 Einstein's Contribution to Quantum Theory.- 10 Space, Time and Causality in Modern Physics.- 11 The Theory of Relativity and Science.- 12 Impressions of Albert Einstein.- 13 Albert Einstein and the Development of Physics.- 14 Theory and Experiment.- 15 Phenomenon and Physical Reality.- 16 Science and Western Thought.- 17 Ideas of the Unconscious from the Standpoint of Natural Science and Epistemology.- 18 Exclusion Principle and Quantum Mechanics.- 19 The Violation of Reflection Symmetries in the Laws of Atomic Physics.- 20 On the Earlier and More Recent History of the Neutrino.-21 The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler.- Name Index.