Antonio Gramsci's Reflection on Quantum Mechanics
Abstract
As the first step of a wider historical reconstruction of the reception of quantum mechanics in the nineteenth-century philosophy, we are going to consider Antonio Gramsci's philosophy. He asks himself about the nature of quantum objects, if their existence depends on the act of measuring by the experimenter and if this kind of relationship can be interpreted as an argument in favour of an immaterialistic philosophy. We will remark how an idealistic interpretation of quantum mechanics found a fertile field in the Italian culture, characterized by an antiscientific attitude and at the same time needing to find in science a term of comparison.
- Publication:
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The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Historical Analysis and Open Questions-Cesena 2004
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812773258_0028
- Bibcode:
- 2006fqm..conf..320T