Who Wants a Postmodern Physics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4516289
AutoresCathryn Carson (Stanford University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen8
Número4
Páginas635-655
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0269889700002222
OpenAlexW2002207623
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas39

The ArgumentTheorists of science and culture, seeking to explicate the implications of chaos theory, quantum mechanics, or special and general relativity, have drawn parallels to the constellation of intellectual and social phenomena collected in the concept of postmodernism. The notion thereby invoked of a postmodern physics is suggestive and worth exploring. But it remains ungrounded so long as the argument moves in the realm of parallels. Moreover, these discussions prove to be tacitly constrained by a preexisting genre of physicists' own literary production, a genre whose argumentative structures have been taken over implicitly into the subsequent exchanges. Attending critically in this way to the intellectual interests of the discussants - asking who it is that wants to constitute a postmodern physics - should open up more productive ways of framing the debate

Argumentative · Epistemology · Parallels · Political science · Postmodern theatre · Postmodernism · Realm · Sociology · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Quantum Mechanics and Applications