QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY AND TEARING OF THE SPIRIT: HEGELIAN REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE

Abstract

Since the formulation of the uncertainty principle, research in quantum physics has raised a philosophical dilemma basically centered on the opposition between realists, favoring the assumptions of strong objectivity, and idealists, leaning on the foundations of weak objectivity. The central hypothesis of this article is that this dualism, as well as the classic problem of the solipsism of consciousness, can be properly understood as a stage in the development of the self-consciousness of the spirit, in the conceptual molds of Hegel's philosophy.