Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics and Reductionism

Perspectives in Theoretical Chemistry

Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics and Reductionism

Perspectives in Theoretical Chemistry

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1: Open Problems of the Present-Day Theoretical Chemistry
1.1 The Overproduction of Truth
1.2 Chemical Theories
1.3 "We can calculate everything"
1.4 Some Puzzles of Molecular Quantum Mechanics
1.5 New Points of View Are Needed
2: On the Structure of Scientific Theories
2.1 A Good Theory should be Consistent, Confirmed and Intuitable
2.2 No Theory can be Proved to be Free from Inner Contradictions
2.3 Experiments can neither Prove a Theory True nor False
2.4 Preconceptions and Prior Conceptions
2.5 There is no Insight without Inner Pictures
2.6 Are Theories dangerous?
2.7 Summing Up
3: Pioneer Quantum Mechanics and its Interpretation
3.1 Introductory Remarks and Preview
3.2 The Historical Development of the Hilbert-Space Model of Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
3.3# Outline of the Hilbert-Space Formalism of Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
3.4 The Copenhagen Interpretation of Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
3.5 The von Neumann-London-Bauer Interpretation of Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
3.6 The Everett Interpretation of Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
3.7 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations
3.8 Conclusion: The Status of Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
4: Beyond Pioneer Quantum Mechanics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Algebraic Quantum Mechanics
4.3# Algebraic Statistical Mechanics
4.4 The Development of Quantum Logics
4.5# Non-Boolean Probability Theory
4.6 Interrelations and Synthesis
5: A Framework for Theoretical Chemistry
5.1 Reevaluation for the Paradigms of Theoretical Chemistry
5.2 The Logic of Properties
5.3 Orthomodular Temporal Logic and its Ontic Interpretation
5.4 W*-Logic for Chemistry
5.5 Theory Reduction
5.6 Objects in a Quantum World
6: Reductionism, Holism and Complementarity
6.1 The Controversy Reductionism vs.Holism
6.2 Complex Systems
6.3 Patterns in Holistic Systems
6.4 A New Look at Molecular Patterns
6.5 One Way of Telling is not Enough
Bibliography and Author Index.
ISBN 978-3-642-69367-0
Artikelnummer 9783642693670
Medientyp Buch
Auflage 2. Aufl.
Copyrightjahr 2011
Verlag Springer, Berlin
Umfang XII, 452 Seiten
Abbildungen XII, 452 p.
Sprache Englisch