The French crisis: Rethinking the phenomenology of quantum mechanics.
Studies in history and philosophy of science June 13, 2025 Arezoo Islami, Harald A. Wiltsche 2 citations
In his book, A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations, Steven French argues that quantum mechanics, understood through the phenomenological lens of London and Bauer, turns physics into a "genuine science", and thus completes the project Edmund Husserl had started in his last major publication, The Crisis of European Sciences. What makes quantum...
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.002 (opens in new tab)
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Edmund husserl
Mathematization
Philosophy of physics
Quantum theory
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