Erhard Scheibe

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Erhard Scheibe (born September 24, 1927 in Berlin ; † January 7, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a philosopher of science who was particularly concerned with the philosophical foundations of modern physics . He published works on the interpretation of quantum mechanics and reductionism in physics.

Scheibe studied in Göttingen , where he also received his doctorate in mathematics in 1955 . From 1957 he was assistant to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . In 1963 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Hamburg with the thesis "The contingent statements in physics", in which philosophical problems of quantum mechanics are dealt with. Afterwards he was a full professor of philosophy in Göttingen . In 1977 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1983 until his retirement in 1992 he held the chair for philosophy of natural sciences in Heidelberg .

Publications (selection)

  • The contingent statements in physics , Athenaeum, Frankfurt a. M., 1964
  • The Logical Analysis of Quantum Mechanics , Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1973, ISBN 0080171583
  • The reduction of physical theories. A contribution to the unity of physics , Springer, Berlin 1997 (Part I: Fundamentals and elementary theory), ISBN 978-3540616351 and 1999 (Part II: Incommensurability and borderline case reduction), ISBN 978-3540650096
  • Between Rationalism and Empiricism. Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics , Brigitte Falkenburg (Editor), Springer, 2001, ISBN 0387985204
  • The philosophy of physicists , CH Beck, 2006, ISBN 3406542719 . Revised paperback edition: CH Beck, 2007, ISBN 3406547885

Festschrift

  • Lorenz Krüger , Brigitte Falkenburg (eds.): Physics, philosophy and the unity of science: for Erhard Scheibe , Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg; Berlin; Oxford 1995, ISBN 3-86025-689-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . tape 2010 , no. 1 , 2011, p. 26 .
  2. ^ Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: Prof. Dr. Erhard Scheibe †

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personal data
SURNAME Disk, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher of science and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2010
Place of death Hamburg