Language and the Limits of Science

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Language and the Limits of Science

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

To see science as a human activity having some fundamental limitations is a Kantian insight. Even though his views have lost in many areas of philosophy their appeal, Kant's thesis about fundamental limitations of science is still compelling. If we try to base this thesis on language instead of on intuition, it is possible even today to argue in a technical way that every scientific theory has its analytical and expressive boundaries. By moving from one linguistic framework to the next one these boundaries, can shift, nevertheless, they never disappear. In the present paper I would like to study the shifts of the analytical and expressive boundaries imposed on our thought by language. For this reason I will analyse several examples taken from the history of physics. One of the surprising outcomes of these analyses will be a new interpretation of Kant's antinomies of pure reason. If we relate Kant's antinomies not to reason as such, but to the linguistic framework of the particular physical theory, the antinomies retain their validity. In the form of the analytical and expressive boundaries of language the antinomies are a recurring feature of all physical theories. Thus Kant in his antinomies discovered the first manifestations of a universal epistemological fact.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Language and the Limits of Science

Popis výsledku anglicky

To see science as a human activity having some fundamental limitations is a Kantian insight. Even though his views have lost in many areas of philosophy their appeal, Kant's thesis about fundamental limitations of science is still compelling. If we try to base this thesis on language instead of on intuition, it is possible even today to argue in a technical way that every scientific theory has its analytical and expressive boundaries. By moving from one linguistic framework to the next one these boundaries, can shift, nevertheless, they never disappear. In the present paper I would like to study the shifts of the analytical and expressive boundaries imposed on our thought by language. For this reason I will analyse several examples taken from the history of physics. One of the surprising outcomes of these analyses will be a new interpretation of Kant's antinomies of pure reason. If we relate Kant's antinomies not to reason as such, but to the linguistic framework of the particular physical theory, the antinomies retain their validity. In the form of the analytical and expressive boundaries of language the antinomies are a recurring feature of all physical theories. Thus Kant in his antinomies discovered the first manifestations of a universal epistemological fact.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Limits of Science: An Analysis from 'Barriers' to 'Confines'

ISBN

978-90-04-32539-5

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

69-93

Počet stran knihy

216

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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