Ulrich Hoyer

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Ulrich Hoyer (born June 4, 1938 in Weimar ; † July 21, 2020 ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Ulrich Hoyer studied physics at the University of Mainz and the University of Vienna from 1958 to 1965 and graduated as a physicist in 1965. In 1969 he was in Mainz with the work "The nuclear stopping cross section of various gases for alpha particles in Umladungsgebiet" to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. 1973 habilitation he did for the History of Science at the University of Stuttgart , in 1975 he received a call as Professor of Philosophy , with special reference to the philosophy of science, at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 2003 he retired. He held a visiting professorship for natural philosophy at the private Gustav Siewerth Academy .

Hoyer's areas of work and main research areas were the history and the fundamentals of physics, in particular quantum and relativity theory . His particular research interest was the problem of the interpretation of quantum mechanics, for which he was looking for a solution on a stochastic basis. He submitted counter-proposals to the modern theory of relativity, of whose scientific finality he, along with Dingler and other skeptics, was not convinced, and he called for a return to the rational analytical method of classical physics. He takes the position that for Galilean reference systems the Galileo transformation, in contrast to the Lorentz or Voigt transformation, is unreservedly valid. In the field of cosmology, he questions the correctness of the big bang hypothesis.

Hoyer was chairman of the board of trustees of the Hugo-Dingler-Stiftung , Aschaffenburg , for many years , and as such promoted the printing of scientific non-fiction books in the fields of philosophy, philosophy of science and the history of science. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees on March 8, 2019, he resigned from this position for reasons of age and as a member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

Works (selection)

  • The history of Bohr's atomic theory - Weinheim: Physik Verlag, 1974. - ISBN 3-87664-022-9 .
  • Wave mechanics on a statistical basis - a new approach to the wave mechanical atomic model by means of a discontinuity postulate without contradicting consequences . Institute for Science Education at Kiel University, IPN work reports, Kiel 1983, 110 pages.
  • Battle of two worldviews: metaphysics between science and religion in Gideon Spicker's work . Edited by Ulrich Hoyer and Harald Schwaetzer. - Hildesheim ; Zurich: Olms, 1999 - ISBN 3-487-10935-2 .
  • Philosophy and philosophy of science , contributions: Ulrich Hoyer, Klaus Mainzer , Werner Strombach. - Swords, 198.
  • A religion in a philosophical form on a scientific basis: Gideon Spicker's religious philosophy in the context of his life, his work, his time . Second Gideon Spicker Symposium, edited by Ulrich Hoyer et al. Hildesheim ; Zurich: G. Olms, 2002 - ISBN 3-487-11589-1 .
  • Synthetic Quantum Theory - Hildesheim; Zurich: Olms, 2002, ISBN 3-487-11762-2
  • Hugo Dingler's method of physics. On the 50th anniversary of Dingler's death in science and life: Philosophical justification problems in discussion with Hugo Dingler Editor Peter Janich , transcript Verlag , July 31, 2015 - 274 pages
  • together with Hans H. Sallhofer: Fallstrick Copenhagen Interpretation : Conversations on Quantum Theory - Vienna: Universitas, 2007 - ISBN 978-3-8004-1477-2
As editor
  • Niels Bohr: Work on atomic physics (1912-1917) / ed. By Ulrich Hoyer. - Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1981. (Collected works / Niels Bohr; vol. 2) - ISBN 0-7204-1802-X .
  • Co-editor of the specialist journal Existentia - An international Journal of Philosophy , Szeged, Budapest, Frankfurt am Main, Münster and Miami.

literature

  • Philosophy is criticism : on the methodology of physics and metaphysics: Festschrift for Ulrich Hoyer , ed. by August Herbst and Harald Schwaetzer. - Regensburg: Roderer, 1998 - ISBN 3-89073-255-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: About a rational statistical foundation of wave mechanics . In: Philosophia naturalis . Volume 18, 1981, pp. 356-367.
  2. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: The statistical basics of wave mechanics . In: Publications of the Catholic Academy Schwerte , Volume 9, 1982, pp. 27-43.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: The basic problem of quantum theory . In: Publications of the Catholic Academy Schwerte , Volume 9, 1982, pp. 9-26.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: Quantum Theory and Causality . In: Hōrin - Comparative Studies on Japanese Culture , Volume 6, 1999, pp. 211–222, ISBN 3-89129-515-4 .
  5. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: About induction, correspondence and quantum mechanics . In: Existentia - An International Journal of Philosophy , Vol. XII, 2002, Fasc. 1-2, pp. 55-62.
  6. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: Euclidean versus non-Euclidean geometry . In: Existentia - An International Journal of Philosophy , Vol.XXVII, 2017, Fasc. 1-2, pp. 139-145.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: Classical natural philosophy and modern physics . In: Existentia , Vol. III - IV, 1993-94, Fasc. 1-4, pp. 57-83.
  8. ^ Ulrich Hoyer: Philosophy of scientific prognoses . In: Universitas - Journal for Interdisciplinary Science , Volume 47, 1992, pp. 896-903.
  9. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: Generalized Gravitation Theory . In: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie , Volume XX, 1989, pp. 287-302.
  10. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: The basics of the special theory of relativity . In: Existentia - An International Journal of Philosophy , Vol.XXIX, 2019, Fasc. 1-2, pp. 117-125.
  11. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: Did the Big Bang really take place? . In: Existentia - An International Journal of Philosophy , Vol.XXVIII, 2018, Fasc. 1-2, pp. 1-7.
personal data
SURNAME Hoyer, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, professor of philosophy and cosmology
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2020