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David Bohm

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In the years following Bohm’s death there was rising recognition of his contributions to physics and philosophy. While some of this recognition came through accolades and historical and philosophical works on Bohm’s life and work, the most influential and lasting came through the people who had been working on Bohm’s ideas. However, those working on these needed to deal with some ambiguities intrinsic to the Bohm’s ideas; thus, depending on the choices each made from the menu, they went to work in different intellectual directions. Still, some who introduced new ideas to Bohm’s original arsenal and claimed to be working along Bohm’s lines, for instance those who coined the term “Bohmian mechanics,” did not find wide acceptance among others who were working along different lines. Therefore, combining the rising recognition with the diverse manners of interpreting Bohm’s intellectual legacy, a dispute emerged over the memory of Bohm’s works.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Redhead (1992), Horgan (1993), Pace (1992), Goldstein (1994).

  2. 2.

    Melba Phillips to David Peat, 17 Oct 1994, A. 22, Bohm Papers. Hiley (1997). Lancelot Whyte to Léon Rosenfeld, 8 Apr 1958, Rosenfeld Papers. Bell (1982, 1987). Physical review centenary book is Stroke (1995).

  3. 3.

    Pinch (1977), Cross (1991), Peat (1997), Freire Junior (1999, 2005, 2011, 2015), Kojevnikov (2002), Olwell (1999), Cushing (1994), Mullet (2008), Bohm et al. (1999), Pylkkänen (2007), Forstner (2007, 2008), Talbot (2017).

  4. 4.

    Bohm (1980), Bohm and Hiley (1993), Horgan (1993), Atmanspacher (2013).

  5. 5.

    Redhead (1992), Bohm (1980).

  6. 6.

    For a short description of Vigier’s life and work, see Holland (1995), and for a detailed analysis of his works, see (Besson 2018). The textbook systematizing these ideas is Holland (1993). A review of the work developed by Pinto-Neto and Acacio de Barros is Pinto-Neto and Fabris (2013). For Valentini’s works, see (Valentini 2007, 2010).

  7. 7.

    The papers presenting Bohmian mechanics are Dürr et al. (1992a, b). Goldstein and Lebowitz (1995, 1208), Bohm (1952, 170).

  8. 8.

    Dürr et al. (1992a). Interview of Goldstein by Freire Junior on 2017 November 3, Niels Bohr Library and Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.

  9. 9.

    Dürr et al. (1992a, b, 1996), Dürr et al. (2009).

  10. 10.

    Dürr et al. (1992b).

  11. 11.

    Interview of Goldstein by Freire Junior, op. cit. The book is Dürr et al. (2013).

  12. 12.

    Holland (1993), Dürr et al. (2013).

  13. 13.

    Hiley (2009), Bohm and Hiley (1993, 1984). Other works along the same lines were Frescura and Hiley (1980a, b, 1984, 1987), and Bohm and Hiley (1981).

  14. 14.

    Hiley and Fernandes (1997), Hiley and Callaghan (2012). For a list of Basil Hiley’s works, till 2013, see the journal Foundations of Physics , Volume 43(4), 415–423, April 2013. This issue includes a Festschrift for him, edited by Chris Dewdney, Paavo Pylkkänen, and Harald Atmanspacher. Bohm and Hiley (1993).

  15. 15.

    Flack and Hiley (2018).

  16. 16.

    Atmanspacher (2013).

  17. 17.

    A very short list of historical studies of these controversies are: on the reception of Newton’s mechanics and gravity, Blay (1995, 2002); on the reception and later developments of Darwin’s natural selection, Bowler (2003); on the reception of Einstein’s principle of relativity, Glick (1987) and Paty (1993); on Mach’s criticisms towards Newton’s mechanics , Barbour and Pfister (1995); on the reception and interpretation of Wegener’s continental drift theory, Oreskes (1988) and Frankel (2012); on controversies over geological eras, Rudwick (1985); on debates over the action at a distance and action by continuity in electromagnetism, Darrigol (2000); on debates on the 20th century cosmological models , Kragh (1996); for a short presentation of the issues concerning the long controversy over the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics, see Mitchell (2009), particularly Chap. 3, pp. 40–55, and the references therein; and on debates during the coalescence of quantum chemistry as a new subdisciplinary field, see Gavroglu and Simões (2012).

  18. 18.

    Lakatos (1978), Feyerabend (1993), Kuhn (1962).

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