Von der Physik zur Metaphysik

Hedrich, Reiner

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“…Jacobeit bringt darin die Erscheinungsformen des Jochs in einen wirtschafts-und kulturhistorischen Kontext und zeigt, dass das Joch gewissermaßen als "epistemisches Ding" für eine Vielzahl wirtschaftlicher, sozialer, kultureller und materieller Verbindungen stand, die sich in seiner Materialität verkörperten (Korff 2011). Die Sachkulturforschung der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft kann auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken, in der als theoretische Konzepte die "Dingbeseelung" oder die "Dingebedeutsamkeit" eine Rolle spielten, ebenso die Unterscheidung von "Material", "Gestalt" und "Form" Hedrich 2007). Die Darstellung in dieser Arbeit steht diesen klassisch volkskundlichen Formen -auch in ihrem Wichtignehmen historischer Bezüge -in der Darstellungsform einerseits näher als der aktuellen Forschung im Sinne der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT) in den interdisziplinären Science and Technology Studies (STS).…”

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Konviviale Technik

Vetter

2023

Edition Kulturwissenschaft

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Wie kann ein Umbau technischer Geräte, von Prozessen und Infrastrukturen aus einer Postwachstumsperspektive aussehen? Mit dem Ansatz der konvivialen Technik stellt Andrea Vetter eine empirische Technikethik vor, die sie durch ethnographische Erkundungen in der Technikproduktion sowie die Sichtung historischer Quellen zu »alternativer« Technik entwickelt hat. Anhand der Beispiele Komposttoilette und Lastenfahrrad arbeitet sie die zentralen Kriterien für eine postwachstumstaugliche Technikbewertung aus: Verbundenheit, Zugänglichkeit, Anpassungsfähigkeit, Bio-Interaktivität und Angemessenheit.

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Konviviale Technik

Vetter

2023

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Language and Reality

Falkenburg

2010

Found Phys

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The article investigates the way in which Peter Mittelstaedt has been contributing to the philosophy of physics for half a century. It is shown that he pursues a path between rationalism and empiricism in the sense of Erhard Scheibe's philosophy of the physicists. Starting from Kant's a priori he gives a rational reconstruction of the conceptual revolutions of 20th century physics. The central topic of his philosophy of physics is the quest for semantic self-consistency, which for quantum mechanics is a hard nut to crack.

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The Internal and External Problems of String Theory: A Philosophical View

Hedrich

2007

J Gen Philos Sci

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String theory is at the moment the only advanced approach to a unification of all interactions, including gravity.But, in spite of the more than thirty years of its existence, it does not make any empirically testable predictions, and it is completely unknown which physically interpretable principles could form the basis of string theory. At the moment, "string theory" is no theory at all, but rather a labyrinthic structure of mathematical procedures and intuitions. The only motivations for string theory consist in the mutual incompatibility of the standard model of quantum field theory and of general relativity as well as in the metaphysics of the unification program of physics, aimed at a final unified theory of all interactions, including gravity. The article gives a perspective on the problems leading to and resulting from this situation. String Theory and Philosophy of ScienceSome physicists seem to take it for sure that string theory 4 is the adequate theory of quantum gravity and the ultimate theory of nature."I believe that we have found the unique mathematical structure that consistently combines quantum mechanics and general relativity. So it must almost certainly be correct." (Schwarz (1998) 2) Others see in it the ultimate hype in which the ideals of physics as an empirical science get lost. But what is string theory really? -There are certainly good reasons to claim that this question can not be answered conclusively at the moment, because string theory isn't yet a complete theory. 't know." (Susskind (2005) 124) "Elegance requires that the number of defining equations be small. Five is better than ten, and one is better than five. On this score, one might facetiously say that String Theory is the ultimate epitome of elegance. With all the years that String Theory has been studied, no one has ever found even a single defining equation! The number at present count is zero. We know neither what the fundamental equations of the theory are nor even if it has any. Well then, what is the theory, if not a collection of defining equations? We really donAlready in 1988, after the first wave of string enthusiasm which started with the development of the first consistent anomaly-free perturbative supersymmetric string theories, Robert Weingard wrote in his paper A Philosopher Looks at String Theory: " [...] there is, in a sense, no theory for the philosopher to analyse." (Weingard (1989) 138) In a certain way, the conditions for an evaluation of string theory did not change a lot since Weingard's assessment -an assessment which did not prevent him from writing his paper on the subject. Although string theory is at present the most extensively developed approach to a future theory of quantum gravity, it seems to be a rather confusing collection of physical intuitions and mathematical procedures which either will or will not lead finally to a physical theory. At the moment, string theory has no clear and unambiguous nomological basis; no physically motivated fundamental principle is known for ...

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Von der Physik zur Metaphysik

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