PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNIFICATION OF PHYSICAL THEORIES
Evgeniy Alekseevich Bezlepkin
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: унификация, объединение, интертеоретические отношения, синтез, редукция, физическая картина мира, unification, intertheoretical relations, synthesis, reduction, physical picture of the world
Abstract
The article reveals and systematizes philosophical foundations of the unification of physical theories, the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics are taken as the examples. In the ontological aspect, the unification is based on the idea that there exists a fundamental level which determines the diversity of the world phenomena and to which all the other levels may be reduced, as well as on the idea of the interrelation between physical phenomena. In addition, the unification is based on the possibility to build a consistent physical picture of the reality. In the epistemological aspect, the unification is based on the existence of intertheoretical relations between physical theories (those are generalization, reduction, synthesis, and limit passage), as well as on the unity of the cognizer’s self-consciousness.
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