Grete Hermann’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: A Late Appraisal

Abstract

Grete (Henry-)Hermann (1901–84) was a German mathematician and philosopher who made impressive contributions to the philosophy of quantum mechanics in the 1930s that have received too little attention. The two volumes reviewed here make her long-neglected work accessible to a wider audience. They not only focus on Hermann’s contributions to the philosophy of quantum mechanics but also embed her work in her unusually broad horizon of interests and expertise, which ranged from mathematics to physics, psychology, ethics, education, and political philosophy.