Bohr's Anti-Realist Realism in Contemporary (Quantum) Physics and Philosophy

TL;DR

This paper examines Niels Bohr's influence on anti-realist interpretations of physics, highlighting how his ideas challenged traditional scientific realism and continue to shape modern quantum physics and philosophy.

Contribution

It offers a critical analysis of Bohr's anti-realist approach and its impact on the development of contemporary physics and philosophical thought.

Findings

Bohr's anti-realist scheme subverts scientific realism.

Contemporary physics and philosophy are still influenced by anti-realist perspectives.

Bohr's ideas foster a form of 'religious realism' based on faith rather than scientific evidence.

Abstract

We discuss the influential role of Niels Bohr's work in the anti-realist realist re-foundation of physics that took place during the 20th century. We will focus in how, developing the modern co-relational matrix of scientific understanding, his essentially anti-realist scheme was able to capture, subvert and defeat the realist program of science through the establishment of a weakened impotent form of "religious realism" grounded on faith instead of scientific conditions. Finally, we will focus in how, still today, anti-realist realism continues to rule the contemporary post-modern research in both (quantum) physics and philosophy.