Henry Margenau

Henry Margenau (April 30, 1901 – February 8, 1997) was a German-American physicist and philosopher of science. Quotes ... during the last two decades, there has been introduced into physical methodology a principle of utmost philosophical importance, easily rivaling that of relativity, and, in some respects, indeed that of causality. Discovered by Pauli in 1925, it immediately elucidate a whole realm of physical facts and was accepted by physicists with wide acclaim. Called the exclusion principle—or Pauli principle, or principle of anti-symmetry—it was embodied in the axiomatics of quantum mechanics; its pecular methodological significance passed out of view. The exclusion principle and its philosophical importance Philosophy of Science 11 4 1944 187–208 10.1086/286837 Philosophy shows itself to be alive when it raises, again and again, the deep concerns that plague man's reason; it dies when it presumes to have resolved them with finality. Determinism and freedom in their conjunction pose one of the eternal questions ... Journal of Philosophy 64 21 November 1967 714–725 Quantum mechanics, free will, and determinism 10.2307/2023855 The combination of interest in physics and in philosophy was uncommon in the United States, and physicists who deviated from the narrow path were looked down upon by their colleagues. Philosophy of physics was definitely regarded as an aberrant, evasive sort of discipline, practiced by physicists who 'could not make it' in their straight profession and, in somewhat greater numbers, by philosophers whose knowledge of physics was inadequate. (1978) Introduction Physics and philosophy: Selected essays xxiv https://books.google.com/books?id=gfrtCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR24 (Vol. 6. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 reprint of 1978 original) External links Category:Academics from Germany Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicists from Germany Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Philosophers from Germany Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:Historians of science Category:Historians from the United States Category:Historians from Germany Category:Parapsychologists Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from Germany Category:Lutherans Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1901 births Category:1997 deaths Category:Yale University alumni Category:Yale University faculty