Revisiting the 1927 Solvay conference and the early interpretation of quantum mechanics

Jähnert, Martin

doi:10.1007/s11016-011-9555-z

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“…Furthermore, the physicists who developed quantum mechanics in the early 1900s, and who participated in these debates during its first decades, uniformly thought of quantum events as objective, physical occurrences (Friere, 2003). The controversy arose from efforts to express the observations of quantum mechanics "in common language, suitably refined by the vocabulary of classical physics" (Bohr, 1961, p. 26), a project supported by physicists such as Schrödinger and de Broglie, but resisted by others such as Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan (Jähnert, 2012). The Solvay V conference was convened in 1927, in part, to resolve this issue within the community of physicists, but largely failed in this respect (Bacciagaluppi & Valentini, 2009).…”

Section: Taylor and The Boundaries Of Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Taylor’s Soft Perennialism: Psychology or New Age Spiritual Vision?

Hartelius¹

2017

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Taylor has responded to critiques of his soft perennialism model in relationship to what he has called awakening experiences. The fact that some individuals have this type of experience away from the context of religion or spirituality, according to soft perennialism, is explained by a sort of landscape of experience representing the diverse ways in which one may engage with and experience this essential beingness. While this inspiring vision could possibly be true, so also could numerous other speculations about ultimate reality; however, the evidence advanced in support of soft perennialism notion is not valid in the context of psychology, or of any scientific endeavor. Taylor's claims that his metaphysical schema is at least partly evidence-based appears to stem from an overly philosophical view of science and a misunderstanding of the nature of valid scientific evidence. As such, soft perennialism is not a psychological theory, but functions more as a New Age spiritual vision. Given that perennialist visions such as Wilber's have received long and careful scrutiny within the transpersonal field, and now play a reduced role, a sober assessment is that perennialist models belong more to the field's past than to its future. At the same time, Taylor's empirical research into a particular type of developmental transformation may contribute importantly.

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Section: Taylor and The Boundaries Of Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%