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Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The observable: Heisenberg’s philosophy of quantum mechanics, EPUB, ISBN 978-1-4541-9011-0 (New York: Peter Lang, 2016)

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Downes, P. Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The observable: Heisenberg’s philosophy of quantum mechanics, EPUB, ISBN 978-1-4541-9011-0 (New York: Peter Lang, 2016). AI & Soc 38, 2363–2367 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01157-5

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