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Realism in Modern Physics and Postmodern Philosophy

Samira Nazifkar, Ph.D.
University of Neyshabur, Iran

Roghayeh Farsi, Ph.D.
University of Neyshabur, Iran

Abstract

The present paper is an interdisciplinary study which brings together the scientific findings of modern physics with the postmodern philosophical concerns. This paper casts an interpretive light on the key issues of modern physics through the lenses provided by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Realism and the real are the focus of the paper. It is argued there are many affinities between the new concept of the real provided by the quantum mechanics and the real as defined by postmodern philosophers. The paper takes up a comparative and interpretative approach and analyzes the issue of the real in a parallel way between modern physics and philosophy. The main objective of the paper is to show how intimately the scientific and philosophical lenses are intertwined with each other.

Keywords: modern physics, postmodern, real, quantum

1. Introduction

From the middle of the Renaissance under the leadership of Francis Bacon, science gradually crept into the life of the West. The Age of Enlightenment with its stress on rationalism paved the way for replacement of religion with science. Scientific reasoning and thinking became a vogue in the nineteenth century to the extent that human psyche got exposed to scientific exploration. Thus the rise of psychoanalysis as a science initiated with Sigmund Freud. Physics has been one of those sciences that have directly influenced human thinking. The movement of modernism and its continuation in postmodernism owes its relativism and multiplicity to Einsteinian Theory of Relativity. This stands a proof for the claim that physics and philosophy are closely intertwined. They share some common notions, albeit they might differ from one discipline to another.

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Samira Nazifkar, Ph.D.
University of Neyshabur, Iran
re.nazifkar@gmail.com

Roghayeh Farsi, Ph.D.
University of Neyshabur, Iran
rofarsi@yahoo.com

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