Otherwise than quantum

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Theory Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI:10.1017/S1752971921000051

S. Prozorov

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract The paper focuses on two problems with Alexander Wendt's unification of physical and social ontology on the basis of quantum theory. Firstly, by endowing social phenomena with an ontological foundation in physical reality defined in quantum terms Wendt risks reducing a plurality of worlds as ‘fields of sense’, ordered by their immanent rules, to the physical world ordered by the laws of quantum theory. Secondly, by defining his quantum social science as an ontology Wendt risks excluding from consideration all that which violates ontological laws, yet may still be said to exist or take place: event, potentiality, and alterity. Although the advantages of a scientific ontology are indisputable, the price we pay for it is a sense of ontological captivity, whereby everything that is definitely is so, being and non-being rigorously distinguished and separated with nothing between them. This captivity may be escaped by supplementing quantum ontology with ethics in the Levinasian sense of ‘otherwise than being’.

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量子以外

本文以量子理论为基础，着重讨论了温统一物理本体论和社会本体论的两个问题。首先，通过赋予社会现象以量子术语定义的物理现实的本体论基础，温特有可能将多个按其内在规则排序的“感觉场”世界还原为按量子理论定律排序的物理世界。其次，通过将他的量子社会科学定义为本体论，温特有可能将所有违反本体论定律但仍然可以说存在或发生的东西排除在考虑之外：事件、潜在性和交替性。尽管科学本体论的优势是无可争辩的，但我们为之付出的代价是一种本体论的束缚感，即一切肯定是如此，存在与否被严格区分和分离，两者之间没有任何区别。这种束缚可以通过用莱文意义上的“非存在”伦理来补充量子本体论来逃脱。

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International Theory Multiple-

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