Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgment: A Transcendental Foundation of Quantum Objectivity

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Walter de Gruyter, 2007 - Philosophy - 250 pages

The Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgement analyzes the a priori principles which underlie the empirical knowledge provided by quantum theory. In contrast to other transcendental approaches to quantum physics, none of the transcendental principles established by Kant is modified in order to cope with the new epistemological situation that arises with the asumption of the quantum postulate. Rather, by considering Bohr's views, it is argued that classical concepts provide the mathematical formalism of quantum theory with physical reference through symbolic analogies in the strict Kantian sense.

The main result of the investigation is the determination of the highest principle under which quantum objects are subsumed. This principle states that the conditions of the possibility of the systematic unity of contextual experience are at the same time the conditions of the possibility of quantum objects. Upon this principle rests the possibility of any a priori synthetic knowledge of quantum objects. Therefore, the Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgement yields the prolegomena to any future quantum metaphysics.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Kant on the Concepts of Analogy and Symbol
11
Correspondence
49
Complementarity
75
The Symbolic Character of Quantum Theory and the
99
Harald Høffding
124
Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgment
143
On Other Transcendental Approaches to Quantum Mechanics
196
Epilogue
232
Author index
248
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Hernán Pringe, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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