This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of
language in the development and interpretation of physics. An
historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and
physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian
orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the
functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending,
and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book
analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic
philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.