Damian, Peter

Freund, Stephan

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“…We consider that theS ovietp hysicist incorporated this influencei ntoh is dailyp racticeo f scienceinthe form of twomainepistemological principles that were actuallynot 9 PeterF reundn otably gave oneo ft he most caricaturald escriptionso ft he events:" Something was done,and theway theC openhageninterpretationwas reconciled with Marx very much resembles theway theIranian ayatollahs reconciled prostitution with theKoran.The ayatollahs ruled that the Koranspecificallyallowstemporary marriagesand that thereforeamale visitortoa'house of chastity'…is theret oe nteri ntoatemporarym arriage …M arxw as takent ot he Copenhagen altari n muchthe same spirit.The only surprise wasthatthe ayatollahofficiating at Marx's houseofchastity,was none otherthanV .A.F ock, oneofthe greatest Russiantheoretical physicists of thetwentiethcentury." See: Freund 2007,on78-79. 10 Graham 1987Graham 1988.M orec ommentso nG raham'sa pproacht oF ock's work in section3.1.…”

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Beyond Ideology: Epistemological Foundations of Vladimir Fock's approach to Quantum Theory

Martinez

2019

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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Vladimir Fock was a Soviet theoretical physicist who, from the 1930s, worked to prove that modern physics was compatible with the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism. In 1957, he went to Copenhagen, and a dispute over the interpretation of quantum mechanics began with Niels Bohr. Fock later claimed that he had found points of convergence with his Danish colleague, most of them concerning issues of wording and recognition of the reality of the world independently of our mind. It led to a specific narrative among historians of physics on Fock and his interpretation of quantum mechanics: The Soviet physicist is often described as a member of the Copenhagen school that contributed to the rapprochement of the Soviet philosophy of physics with the ideas of complementarity in stripping away the positivism in its formulation. Our contribution aims to show that this ideological dimension was only one aspect of reality. Returning to the foundations of Fock's epistemology of physics, we argue that he relied on the principles of antireductionism and scientific realism to develop an interpretation of the theory that sought to overcome Bohr's approach and that the differences between the two men cannot be reduced to mere questions of formulation.

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Beyond Ideology: Epistemological Foundations of Vladimir Fock's approach to Quantum Theory

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