International Relations. A self-Study Guide to Theory

Self-study (3) 
Familiarize yourselves with the findings of quantum physics by consulting 
two or three titles from the “Quantum physics”-section of the supplemen-
tary reading list. In addition, please read Munro 1927 and diZerrega 1991 
from the “Politics/IR and Quantum theory” section. 
Step 4: 
Discussion (optional, for advanced students) 
Enroll in the discussion on IR as a science on the iversity platform. 
Required reading 
Brodbeck, Karl-Heinz 2011: Die fragwürdigen Grundlagen der Ökonomie. Darmstadt: 
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Kapitel “Soziale Physik” und “Rationalität” (in 
German only). 
Capra, Fritjof 2010: The Tao of Physics. 5
th
ed. Boston: Shambala, Part 1: The way of 
physics (17-84). 
Feyerabend, Paul 2008: Has the scientific view of the world a special status compared with 
other views? In: Hilgevoord, Jan (ed.): Physics and our view of the world. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press, 135-148. 
Sayer, Andrew 2010: Reductionism in Social Science, in: Lee, Richard (ed.): Questioning 
19
th
century assumptions about knowledge: Reductionism. New York: State University 
of New York Press, 5-56. 
Supplementary reading 
Philosophy and science/physics – Classical world view 
Bedenig, Dieter 2011: Physikalische Weltbilder. Solothurn: Weissenstein Verlag (in Ger-
man only). 
Carrier, Martin 2012: Die Struktur der Raumzeit in der Klassischen Physik und der Allge-
meinen Relativitätstheorie, in: Esfeld, Michael (ed.) 2012: Philosophie und Physik. 
Berlin: Suhrkamp, 13-31 (in German only). 
Chalmers, Alan 2010: The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone: How Science 
succeeded and Philosophy failed to gain knowledge. New York: Springer. 
Cohen, Bernhard 2008: The Newtonian Revolution. Cambridge: CUP.

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Damerow, Peter/Renn, Jürgen 2010: The transformation of ancient mechanics into a mech-
anistic world view, in: Toepfer, Georg/Böhme, Hartmut (eds.): Transformationen an-
tiker Wissenschaften. Berlin: de Gruyter, 243-268. 
Dieks, Dennis 2008: The scientific view of the world, in: Hilgevoord, Jan (ed.): Physics 
and our view of the world. Cambridge: CUP, 61-78. 
Donath, Judith 2010: The imperfect observer: Mind, Machines and Materialism in the 
Twenty-First century, in: Lee, Richard (ed.): Questioning 19
th
century assumptions 
about knowledge: Dualism. New York: State University of New York Press, 105-
152. 
Esfeld, Michael (ed.) 2012: Philosophie und Physik. Berlin: Suhrkamp (in German on-
ly).
Esfeld, Michael 2011: Einführung in die Naturphilosophie. 2. Aufl. Darmstadt Wissen-
schaftliche Buchgemeinschaft (in German only).
Garber, Daniel 2010: Descartes embodied. Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Carte-
sian science. Cambridge: CUP. 
Hilgevoord, Jan (ed.) 2008: Physics and our view of the world. Cambridge: CUP. 
Knight, David 1986: The Age of Science. Scientific World view in the Nineteenth century. 
London: Blackwell. 
Lefévre, Wolfgang (ed.) 2001: Between Leibniz, Newton and Kant: Philosophy and Sci-
ence in the Eighteenth Century. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 
Novack, George 1965: Origins of Materialism. The Evolution of a scientific view of the 
world. Pathfinder Books. 
Renn, Jürgen/Valleriani, Matteo/Staude, Jacob et al. (eds.) 2009: Galilei und die Anderen: 
Hintergründe einer Revolution der Astronomie. Heidelberg: Spectrum der Wissen-
schaft. 
Stöckler, Manfred 2012: Demokrits Erben. Atomismus zwischen Philosophie und Physik, 
in: Esfeld, Michael (ed.) 2012: Philosophie und Physik. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 137-157 (in 
German only). 
Quantum physics 
Bedenig, Dieter 2011: Physikalische Weltbilder. Solothurn: Weissenstein Verlag (in Ger-
man only). 
Buschhorn, Gerd/Wess, Julius (eds.) 2004: Fundamental Physics. Heisenberg and Beyond. 
Berlin: Springer. 
Davies, P.C.W./Brown, J.R. 2010: The Ghost in the Atom. Discussions of the Mysteries of 
Quantum Physics. Cambridge: CUP. 
Heisenberg, Werner 2007 (1958): Physics and Philosophy. London: Harper. 
Heisenberg, Werner 1977: The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, in: Physics 
and Philosophy, Frankfurt a.M.: Ullstein, 28-40 (Repr. in Heisenberg, Werner 2011: 
Quantum Theory and Philosophy. Stuttgart: Reclam, 42-61). 
Heisenberg, Werner 1969: Der Teil und das Ganze. München. 
Hey, Tony/Walters, Patrick 2003: The New Quantum Universe. 2
nd
ed. Cambridge: CUP. 
Malin, Shimon 2003: Dr. Bertlsmann Socken. Wie die Quantenphysik unser Weltbild ver-
ändert. Leipzig (in German only). 
Schroedinger, Erwin 2008 (1954; 1951): Nature and the Greeks and Science and Human-
ism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
Wilber, Ken (ed.) 1985: Quantum questions. Boston. 

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Zeilinger, Anton 2010: Dance of Photons. From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation. Farrar 
Straus & Giroux. 
Zeilinger, Anton 2005: Einsteins Spuk. Teleportation und weitere Mysterien der Quanten-
physik. München.