HUMAN SCIENCES AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
Igor Evgenievich Pris
Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus, 1, bd. 2, Surganova st., Minsk, 220072, Belarus
Keywords: науки о природе, гуманитарные науки, квантовая механика, контекстуальный реализм, квантовый реализм, natural sciences, human sciences, quantum mechanics, contextual realism, quantum realism
Abstract
There is no fundamental difference between natural and human sciences. Any science is a normative practice that makes it possible to describe, explain and predict phenomena. At the same time, there are obvious irreducible ontological differences among sciences and within them. Moreover, the ontology is not absolute, but depends on the context. Our contextual realism treats a theory as a Wittgensteinian rule for measuring reality (natural or social) in a context. Thereby, it allows for the consideration of all sciences from a unified point of view and explains the applicability of quantum theory to a number of social phenomena. Social realism is the contextual (“quantum”) realism. In particular, the hard problem of the philosophy of mind is eliminated within the contextual (“quantum”) realism.
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