Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Renato Pettoello
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 44 P. 83-126 File size 637 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2014-001004
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As with any scientific revolution, quantum mechanics entailed a profound revision of our fundamental epistemological concepts and also of our worldview as a whole. This was the case for the concepts of causality and reality. Around these concepts, there arose in the third decade of the last century a heated debate in which almost all the scientists and philosophers of the time took part and which in a certain sense is still going on today. The Author provides a reconstruction of the various different positions, from the "conservative" attempt to defend determinism to the most radical stochastic positions, and singles out in Ernst Cassirer’s solution the most convincing approach.
Keywords: Causality, reality, determinism, indeterminism, probability, quantum mechanics, hidden variables or parameters, epistemology
Renato Pettoello, Causalità e realtà nel dibattito sulla meccanica quantistica degli anni ’30 del novecento. Una possibile ricostruzione in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2014, pp 83-126, DOI: 10.3280/SF2014-001004