Beyond the Atom: The Philosophical Thought of Wolfgang Pauli

1990 
I Introduction.- Biographical Information.- II Positivism and Realism.- Pauli's Positivism.- Pauli's Realism.- III The Reality of Opposites.- Seekers of Another Way.- Absolute Causality and Freedom.- IV The Metaphysical Roots of Science.- The Birth of a Mathematical Natural Science.- A New Concept of Causality.- V Spirit and Matter.- The Twilight of Parallelism.- Statistical Causality.- The Idea of a Detached Observer.- In Conclusion.- VI The Limits of Knowledge.- Uncertainty.- Pauli's Attitude.- Archetypes.- Sychronicity.- VII Mysticism.- Another Way.- Explanatory Comments.- Die Wissenschaft und das abendlandische Denken (1955).- VIII The Problem of Evil.- Irrationality and Evil.- Excerpts from Pauli's Letter to Fierz of Oct. 11, 1953.- Henry More: The Dream of Bathynous.- The Darker Side of God.- A Certain Dream.- IX Quaternity.- The Number Four and Reality.- The Problem of "The Fourth".- Where Leads the Road?.- The Quarternarian Concept of Reality.- X Transcendental Reality.- Synchronicity.- Observer and Observed.- The Veiled Reality.- The Irrational Dimensions of Reality.- Appendices.
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