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Objectivity on Quantum Events: The Principle of Complementarity and the Rortian Perspective
Nalliely Hernández Cornejo
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2016.04.001
In this writing, I reconstruct the Principle of Complementarity in Quantum Mechanics, elaborated by Niels Bohr, and the conception of objectivity implied in it (and in Bohr’s writings). Then, I connect it with the epistemological pragmatism of the philosopher Richard Rorty. My aim is to reinterpret some issues of this quantum description that concern the category of objectivity from the Rortian perspective in a plausible way. This allows me to connect in a positive and a negative sense some quantum (and Bohrian) assumptions to the Rortian perspective, but mainly, it allows to reconsider the framework of scientific objects from the modern perspective to a new pragmatist and anti-essentialist point of view.
Quantum Mechanics, pragmatism, Bohr, Rorty, Complementarity, postmodernity, inter-subjectivity