Contemporary Science Between Theoretical and Practical Reason: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Approach to Quantum Theory
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El propósito de este trabajo es mostrar que la radical distinción kantiana entre razón teórica y razón práctica no puede ya mantenerse en el contexto contemporáneo de la teoría cuántica. Sostengo que las condiciones de la experiencia subjetivas, teóricas y a priori, tal como están representadas en la mecánica cuántica, se encuentran inexorablemente conectadas con las condiciones a priori de comunicación entre agentes en el mundo. Por lo tanto, la razón teórica no puede ser desvinculada de la razón práctica, tal como Kant afirma, sino que por el contrario tenemos ahora una capacidad racional unificada que es al mismo tiempo teórica y práctica, y, en este sentido, pragmática-transcendental.
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The aim of this paper is to show that in the contemporary context of quantum theory, the Kantian radical distinction between theoretical and practical reason can no longer be held. I argue that the theoretical and a priori subjective conditions of experience, as represented in quantum mechanics, are inexorably connected to the a priori conditions of communication between agents in the world. Therefore, theoretical reason cannot be detached from practical reason, as Kant holds, but on the contrary we now have one unified capacity for reason that is at the same time theoretical and practical, and, in that sense, transcendental-pragmatic.
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