The Roles of One Thought Experiment in Interpreting Quantum Mechanics. Werner Heisenberg Meets Thomas Kuhn.

Abstract

Maybe this is one of the reasons this particular thought experiment has not received much detailed attention in the philosophical literature on thought experiments up to date. As I want to argue in this paper, this neglect is to be regretted, as one of the philosophical accounts of the function of thought experiments can provide the clue to a most fruitful understanding of Heisenberg’s thought experiment. In this way the philosophical discussion on thought experiments ∗The author is Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research — Flanders (Belgium).