Czy fizyka wskazuje na istnienie transcendencji? Dyskusja wokół książki "Fizyk w jaskini światów"

Abstract

Professor Krzysztof A. Meissner proposes a picture of transcendence resulting from physics’ understanding of the world. The transcendence of which he speaks does not mean the Absolute-God, but the world of universal and unchanging laws of nature, which are understood by him in the shape of the Platonic world of ideas. Therefore, one may ask whether such statements are legitimate on the grounds of physics, or should they be considered a particular philosophical view? Furthermore, what is Meissner’s actual understanding of the status of “laws of nature”? Can they legitimately be considered a world of ideas? Does their existence actually indicate the existence of some transcendence? This article is the transcript of a discussion around the book A Physicist in the Cave of Worlds, (Biblioteka Więzi, Vol. 389, Warszawa 2023) by Krzysztof A. Meissner, Jerzy Sosnowski, which took place on March 25, 2023 at the Department of Philosophy of Nature of the CSWU Institute of Philosophy in Warsaw.

Keywords

• physics
• transcendence
• philosophy of science
• philosophy of physics
• platonism