Reality and Its Order

• Main Author: Heisenberg, Werner (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kleinknecht, Konrad (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy and science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Philosophy of Science.

Available here for the first time in English, "Reality and Its Order" is a remarkable philosophical text by Werner Heisenberg, the father of quantum mechanics and one of the leading scientists of the 20th century. Written during the wartime years and initially distributed only to his famil...

Table of Contents:

• Preface of the Editor
• Introduction by Helmut Rechenberg
• Section I: The Diverse Areas of Reality
• Language
• Order
• Section II: The Domain of Reality in Goethe's View
• (Classical) Physics
• Chemistry
• Organic Life
• Consciousness
• Symbol and Gestalt
• The Creative Forces
• Section III: Commentary by Ernst Peter Fischer.