Book ID: CBB889047690

Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology (2015)

unapi

Wendt, Alexander (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 366
Language: English

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon. In the first half of the book, Wendt justifies the insertion of quantum theory into social scientific debates, introduces social scientists to quantum theory and the philosophical controversy about its interpretation, and then defends the quantum consciousness hypothesis against the orthodox, classical approach to the mind-body problem. In the second half, he develops the implications of this metaphysical perspective for the nature of language and the agent-structure problem in social ontology. Wendt's argument is a revolutionary development which raises fundamental questions about the nature of social life and the work of those who study it.

...More
Reviewed By

Review Sharon Crasnow (2016) Review of "Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 313-315). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB889047690/

Similar Citations

Article Philippe Stamenkovic; (2017)
Retour sur la philosophie de la physique quantique d’Ernst Cassirer (/isis/citation/CBB115699306/)

Article Andrea Mazzola; (2015)
La controversia sulla teoria dei quanti e la Scuola di Lisbona (/isis/citation/CBB584135644/)

Book Autumn Womack; (2022)
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 (/isis/citation/CBB242416698/)

Article Martin Calamari; (2021)
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity (/isis/citation/CBB643976714/)

Book Chris Talbot; (2017)
David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women (/isis/citation/CBB458295199/)

Book Jeffrey Bub; (2016)
Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates (/isis/citation/CBB186361217/)

Article Daniela Monaldi; (2019)
The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics (/isis/citation/CBB327349848/)

Book David Kaiser; Alan Lightman; (2020)
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (/isis/citation/CBB385682968/)

Book William Demopoulos; (2022)
On Theories: Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics (/isis/citation/CBB978762409/)

Article Gregory Hollin; Isla Forsyth; Eva Giraud; Tracey Potts; (December 2017)
(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics (/isis/citation/CBB281059364/)

Article Enric Pérez; Joana Ibáñez; (2022)
Indistinguishable elements in the origins of quantum statistics: The case of Fermi–Dirac statistics (/isis/citation/CBB576846777/)

Article Barnett, S. A.; (2003)
The Pale Cast of Thought: An Essay Review of Thinks… by David Lodge (/isis/citation/CBB000551078/)

Article Cristian Soto; Diego Romero-Maltrana; (2020)
Local Selective Realism: Shifting from Classical to Quantum Electrodynamics (/isis/citation/CBB826372933/)

Article Diederik Aerts; Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi; Sandro Sozzo; Tomas Veloz; (2020)
On the Conceptuality Interpretation of Quantum and Relativity Theories (/isis/citation/CBB847601811/)

Book Gabor Hofer-Szabo; (2013)
The Principle of the Common Cause (/isis/citation/CBB454051627/)

Book Christopher Braider; (2018)
Experimental Selves: Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe (/isis/citation/CBB192974374/)

Chapter Smith, Christopher Upham Murray; (2014)
Herbert Spencer: Brain, Mind and the Hard Problem (/isis/citation/CBB001214143/)

Authors & Contributors
Ibáñez, Joana
Andrea Mazzola
Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
Giraud, Eva
Martin Calamari
Autumn Womack
Concepts
Quantum theory
Philosophy of science
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Consciousness
Mind and body
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Lisbon (Portugal)
Munich (Germany)
Great Britain
Institutions
Munich. Universität
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment