Background
Bohm, David Joseph was born on December 20, 1917 in Wilkes-Barre, ^'msylvania.
tysicist and anti-Cartesian holist
Bohm, David Joseph was born on December 20, 1917 in Wilkes-Barre, ^'msylvania.
1939, Pennsylvania State College. University of California, uTkeley, PhD 1943.
1943-1947, Radiation
Laboratory, University of California. 1947-1951, Assistant Professor, Princeton University. 1951-1955, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1955-1957, Professor, The Technion, Haifa, Israel. 1957-1961, Research Fellowship, University of Bristol. 1961-1992, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Dissatisfied with what he saw as the orthodoxy’s too-easy acceptance of von Neumann’s Theorem proscribing alternative ontological views, Bohm urged theoreticians to dig deeper in realist vein to provide an explanation of individual quantum processes to make quantum theory more complete. His unorthodox views initially failed to arouse the curiosity of most scientists but this has changed more recently, despite the appeal to non-locality. Recently, Bohm published works which, using quantum physics as a model, promote what he saw as a necessary alteration in metaphysical outlook. Themes include a rejection of Cartesian ‘atomism’ in favour of a philosophy or ‘order’ embracing ‘wholeness’. Bohm claims that whilst the ‘explicate order’ may appear a world of fragmented things, each such thing expresses the whole universe. He deploys the metaphor of ‘hologram’: for Bohm, the world is like a ‘holomovement’, a dynamic totalilty. It is doubt ful that mainstream philosophers have been much influenced by these later works.