S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it (Dec 2017)
Il virtuale della Fenomenologia nella Fisica: Temporalità e Cinestesi alla prova della Teoria della Relatività. Dai Manoscritti di Einstein e Husserl
Abstract
The Virtual of Phenomenology in Physics. The Theory of Relativity like proof bench of Temporality and Kinaesthesia. From Einstein and Husserl’s manuscripts The search for objective knowledge purports to aim at a reality independent of our experience of it, but we find ourselves dependent upon our sense experience as the only possible access to this purportedly independent reality that is the object of science. Husserl’s phenomenological point of view reveals how this aim is understandable, and, as the major developments in twentieth-century physics have shown (Einstein’s Relativity Theory), how science must take account of the way that virtual forms of our thinking play a key role in capturing the phenomena scientists describe and explain. What this paper claims to prove is the epistemological evidence of an unavoidable relationship between the virtual and real that are described through the formal sciences and the concrete objects that they purport to capture. In one of his manuscript entitled: “Overthrow of the Copernican theory” Husserl emphasized the role of virtuality of natural laws such as it arises from Michelson’s experiment, dwelling on natural scientific naiveté. In fact, even though we eventually come to understand the earth as a thing moving among things, the unmoving earth remains the virtual condition that makes any movement intelligible. Thus, we might consider the actual world, each of its pieces and all determinations in them, as «intentional-real» objects of «virtual-conscious» acts.
