TY - JOUR
T1 - Is Bohr’s Correspondence Principle just Hankel’s Principle of Permanence?
AU - Toader, Iulian Danut
PY - 2024/2
Y1 - 2024/2
N2 - No, but the paper argues that Bohr understood his correspondence principle, or at least an aspect of that principle expressed by the notion of rational generalization, as grounded in Hankel's principle of permanence, adapted to new historical and theoretical contexts. This is shown to illuminate some otherwise obscure aspects of Bohr's approach to quantum theory, as well as a seemingly strange criticism against this approach, due to Feyerabend and Bohm.
AB - No, but the paper argues that Bohr understood his correspondence principle, or at least an aspect of that principle expressed by the notion of rational generalization, as grounded in Hankel's principle of permanence, adapted to new historical and theoretical contexts. This is shown to illuminate some otherwise obscure aspects of Bohr's approach to quantum theory, as well as a seemingly strange criticism against this approach, due to Feyerabend and Bohm.
KW - Bohr's quantum mechanics
KW - Principle of permanence
KW - 19th century mathematics
KW - the correspondence principle
UR - https://philpapers.org/rec/TOAIBC
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181153222&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.12.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0039-3681
VL - 103
SP - 137
EP - 145
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
ER -