Phenomenological Reviews

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Experimental life

Heelan on quantum mechanics

Robert P. Crease

pp. 31-41

Abstract

"Measurement is not an impersonal event that occurs with impartial universality," says Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn's Tony-award winning play Copenhagen. "It's a human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space, from the one particular viewpoint of a possible observer."1

Publication details

Published in:

Babich Babette (2002) Hermeneutic philosophy of science, van Gogh's eyes, and God: essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 31-41

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1767-0_3

Full citation:

Crease Robert P. (2002) „Experimental life: Heelan on quantum mechanics“, In: B. Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic philosophy of science, van Gogh's eyes, and God, Dordrecht, Springer, 31–41.