Kant reception in Heisenberg philosophy of physics

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Vinícius Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Branco, Judikael Castelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Griot : Revista de Filosofia
• Texto Completo: http://www3.ufrb.edu.br/seer/index.php/griot/article/view/1238
• topic: Teoria física; Epistemologia moderna; Mecânica quântica; Unidade da natureza; Física experimental.; Physical theory; Modern epistemology; Quantum mechanics; Unity of nature; Experimental physics.

In the present article we analyze the understanding and the use of the Kantian philosophy by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize of Physics of 1932, formulator of the principle of uncertainty. Heisenberg seems to adopt a neo-Kantian understanding of the nature of science, according to which science would not deal with the real itself, but only with the way it appears, which inescapably depends on the interaction between the subject and the object of knowledge. However, in spite of this conception, Heisenberg considers that the Kantian definitions of "space", "time" and "causality" are not compatible with the developments of the quantum mechanics. In this opportunity we will see more carefully the conception of science and the problem of causality.