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Language and Reality

Peter Mittelstaedt’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Physics

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The article investigates the way in which Peter Mittelstaedt has been contributing to the philosophy of physics for half a century. It is shown that he pursues a path between rationalism and empiricism in the sense of Erhard Scheibe’s philosophy of the physicists. Starting from Kant’s a priori he gives a rational reconstruction of the conceptual revolutions of 20th century physics. The central topic of his philosophy of physics is the quest for semantic self-consistency, which for quantum mechanics is a hard nut to crack.

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Falkenburg, B. Language and Reality. Found Phys 40, 1171–1188 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-010-9449-8

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