The Discussion between Heisenberg and Dirac Regarding the Nature and Meaning of Scientific Knowledge

In this paper we aim to put under discussion two issues. The first refers to the way in which physicists’ ideas on the nature and meaning of scientific knowledge may add up to a philosophical discourse. The second issue we argue about refers to the face-to-face discussion between two renowned physicists, Dirac and Heisenberg, in the attempt to highlight the benefits of direct dialogue as opposed to an academic correspondence carried out in writing though the medium of books, articles or letters. For each of these separate issues we come to analyze, we used two relatively recent articles signed by Alisa Bokulich.