Naslov
It’s That Unstable Thing Over There: The Law-Constitutive Understanding of Quantum Objects

Autori
Domazet, Mladen

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Metaphysics, Language, and Morality: Program and Book of Abstracts / - , 2010, 20-20

Skup
Metaphysics, Language, and Morality

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 01.12.2010. - 03.12.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
quantum physics; explanation; law-constitutive; classical physics

Sažetak
What becomes of our clearest theories of explanation, when faced with the unpalatable quantum phenomena that seem to demand abandonment of metaphysical commitment to self-standing material objects? The general explanatory theory advocates unification of explanatory concepts with everyday discourse, identification of essentially similar characteristics in direct experience and the hypothesised explanatory ontology and conceptualisation of phenomena in terms of objects enduring causally regulated change. On the other hand quantum theory feeds anti-realist suspicions about the worth of realist explanatory endeavour with examples of phenomena in which the structure of material separation and individuation based on spatial extension is insufficient for construction of deeper explanatory narratives. Example from history of science, that of Newton’s law-constitutive definition of objects in response to Descartes problem of bodies is used to suggest a possible strategy for explanations unifying the quantum and common-sense conceptual domains, provided the anti-realist challenge to such enterprise is read as questioning the epistemological justification of interpretation of experience in both cases.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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