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Arbeitsgruppe 2 Methods and paradigms of physics and philosophy -
(in-)compatible?
While both philosophers and physicists are ultimately driven by the same question of
what we can know, they tend to give radically different answers, since they tend to disagree
already on their concepts of reality. The very method of physics is built on the postulate
of a reality which is describable and accessible to everybody, if only expressed in
sufficiently abstract and precise terms. From a philosopher’s point of view, though, such
universal and equally accessible reality does remain a postulate which needs to be justified.
But how can we have a controversial and ideally constructive debate if we lack the
ground of a commonly accessible reality? Can modern trends in physics and philosophy
really help to resolve this fundamental conundrum? What does this eventually imply for a
philosophical interpretation of the foundations of modern high-tech societies?
These three questions will structure our working program: We will have a closer look at
the methodologies of physics on the one hand, and of philosophy on the other, and try
to distill fundamental causes for (dis-)agreement and di- or convergence. We will have a
closer look at modern trends in philosophy and physics, which prima facie account for
the methodological dilemma, and scrutinize how helpful these novel perspectives really
are. To avoid stagnation by mere description, we will finally discuss the consequences of
the present state of affairs for the assessment of ehtical issues which constantly arise in
societies reigned by what could be labeled the technological paradigm.
Leitung
Teilnehmer
Literatur
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Buchleitner
Institut für Physik, Universität Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Marek Kuś
Zentrum für Theoretische Physik, Polnische Akademie
der Wissenschaften, Warschau
Students with interest in the philosophical ramifications of the
natural sciences, and/or in the relevance of philosophical reasoning
for our modern understanding and use of science and technology
Davies, E.B., Science in the Looking Glass. What Do Scientists
Really Know?, Oxford 2003.
Cassirer, E., Zur modernen Physik, Darmstadt 1957.
Weyl, H., Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science,
Princeton 2009.
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