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NEUTRALNI MONIZAM U MODERNOJ FILOZOFIJI I FIZICI
NEUTRAL MONISM IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS

Author(s): Slobodan Perović
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: neutral monism; Ernst Mach; Bertrand Russell; Niels Bohr; physics;

Summary/Abstract: Philosophers have substantially considered the key ideas of Neutral Monism, a philosophical view attempting to overcome the Mind/Body problem, as it was initially developed by Ernst Mach and Bertrand Russell. Yet similar ideas are also found in some key considerations of a few prominent physicists who developed quantum mechanics, although philosophers have neglected them. We will show that Niels Bohr’s principle of complementarity (of the particle and wave aspects of microphysical phenomena) is a gradually developed and experimentally motivated account very close to Russell’s and Mach’s key ideas on Neutral Monism.

  • Issue Year: 62/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 133-140
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian