FROM KANT TO QUANTUM: ON ONTOLOGY IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Igor Evgenievich Pris
Institute of Philosophy of NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
Keywords: Newtonian-Kantian paradigm, quantum socio-political sciences, quantum international relations, quantum paradigm, wave function, entanglement, measurement, observer, contextual quantum realism, quantum ontology
Abstract
Recently, the dominant philosophical paradigm in Western social and political sciences (SPS) has been criticized by a number of researchers and the necessity of transition to a new - quantum - transdisciplinary paradigm using ideas, concepts and formalism of quantum mechanics has been justified. We argue that the need for such a transition is due to the fact that the dominant paradigm is based on outdated assumptions and premises of Modern philosophy, which really should be abandoned. We also agree that it is quantum mechanics that contains the potential for a new philosophy. At the same time, we argue that what many authors take as the “quantum paradigm” in SPS is in fact in many ways not so much an overcoming of the Modern paradigm as a postmodernist radicalization of it. In other words, the alternative they propose turns out to be a pseudo-quantum alternative. We propose the conceptual scheme of a contextual quantum realism as a genuine quantum alternative.
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