Quantum Mechanics and Philosophy : Heisenberg, Plato, Kant

Abner Shimony, Patrick A. Heelan

Ren Ino

ハイゼンベルクは、弟子フォン・ヴァイツゼッカーらと、様々な哲学的議論をおこなっている。晩年の対話篇的著書『部分と全体』（1969）から、プラトンおよびカントについての興味深い討論を検証してみる。

Shiro Ishikawa

Recently we proposed “a new interpretation of quantum mechanics (called quantum and classical measurement theory)” in this journal (JQIS: Vol. 1, No. 2), which was characterized as the metaphysical and linguistic turn of quantum mechanics. This turn from physics to language does not only realize the remarkable extension of quantum mechanics but also yield the quantum mechanical world view (i.e., the philosophy of quantum mechanics). And thus, the turn urges us to dream that traditional philosophies (i.e., Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, John Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Saussure, Wittgenstein, etc.) can be understood in the quantum mechanical world view. This dream will be challenged in this paper. We, of course, know that most scientists are skeptical to philosophy. Still, we can expect that readers find a good linguistic philosophy (i.e. philosophy of language) in quantum mechanics.

Kristian Camilleri

Aage Petersen

Hossien Hossieni, Jabar Fatah, Said Kaki +1 more

In this study, we explain why Hawking thinks in his book (The Grand Design) that philosophy is dead. For this purpose, in the second and third sections we first introduce in brief quantum mechanics, Heisenberg uncertainty, Bohr Complementary and path integral approach to quantum mechanics and explain Young Experiment as heart of quantum mechanics and why no one can predicate future a microscopic system definitely. In fourth section, we explain Kant philosophy about causality and Kant understanding for phenomena and things itself. We discuss towards the end of this work the Copenhagen interpretation, philosophy and Kantian concepts which cannot be used to interpret reality of phenomena on atomic level and quantum mechanics. We then introduce the alternative of philosophy in modern physics, i.e., mathematics.