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Author: "Kanan Purkayastha"

Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

Kanan Purkayastha explains how Werner Heisenberg’s 1925 paper turned the quantum theory of the early 1900s into the quantum mechanics of today.
[Issue 172: February/March 2026: Articles]

How Descartes Inspired Science

Kanan Purkayastha has both general and special theories about how the master rationalist inspired modern empirical science.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023: Descartes]