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A recepção de Kant na filosofia da física de Heisenberg
Kant reception in Heisenberg philosophy of physics
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Abstract In the present article we analyze the understanding and the use of the Kantian philosophy by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize of Physics of 1932, formulator of the principle of uncertainty. Heisenberg seems to adopt a neo-Kantian understanding of the nature of science, according t... view more
In the present article we analyze the understanding and the use of the Kantian philosophy by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize of Physics of 1932, formulator of the principle of uncertainty. Heisenberg seems to adopt a neo-Kantian understanding of the nature of science, according to which science would not deal with the real itself, but only with the way it appears, which inescapably depends on the interaction between the subject and the object of knowledge. However, in spite of this conception, Heisenberg considers that the Kantian definitions of "space", "time" and "causality" are not compatible with the developments of the quantum mechanics. In this opportunity we will see more carefully the conception of science and the problem of causality.... view less
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Free Keywords
Physical theory; Modern epistemology; Quantum mechanics; Unity of nature; Experimental physics
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 266-279
Journal
Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 19 (2019) 3
ISSN
2178-1036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed