Can anyone who is more well read tell me if there is any philosophy work that revises the theory of dialectical materialism in light of modern scientific advances? I just finished Elementary Principles of Philosophy (FLP edition) which was extremely enlightening but some of the scientific examples are dated and it got me thinking. Physics (and all sciences for that matter) has advanced quite a bit in the past fifty years and I'd love to read a principled critique/investigation/discussion on how our current understanding of nature modifies our understanding of materialism. Also if there are any critiques of idealism in the understanding of modern science

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah I was really just taking issue with the previous reasoning that one could use the epistemological difference of quantum mechanics as a model to justify a need for dialectics beyond Marxism. I like Deleuze as much as the hexbear user, I just object to this particular segue into discussing its role.

    In other words, all knowledges are based on a set of axioms that cannot be proven (which does not mean at all that these disciplines are not useful/productive).

    I agree with this entirely, I see the failure of discourse largely as an ideological failure to recognize the axioms of one's own beliefs. Almost no one is clear-eyed, in other words.

    Brief note on physics, you can prove mathematically that relativity and quantum field theory are incompatible models because you can't construct a renormalizable quantum field theory in a curved space time.

    • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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      3 years ago

      Brief note on physics, you can prove mathematically that relativity and quantum field theory are incompatible models because you can’t construct a renormalizable quantum field theory in a curved space time.

      That's really good to know!

      I was really just taking issue with the previous reasoning that one could use the epistemological difference of quantum mechanics as a model to justify a need for dialectics beyond Marxism.

      I don't see it that way either. The question in the thread was about more recent scientific discoveries possibly modifying the dialectical view. So I suppose I tried to answer it as impartially as I could, and I assumed the biggest challenge to the theorists living, as it were, in the Newtonian age, Marx and Hegel included, was quantum mechanics. There is also cybernetics, but that's a whole different issue. I love Bateson. But personally don't think one has to commit to one paradigm at the expense of all others, as long as those still work and explain things.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I assumed the biggest challenge to the theorists living, as it were, in the Newtonian age, Marx and Hegel included, was quantum mechanics.

        Ok yeah, this is the point I don't get. What do you mean by this? In what way does QM pose a challenge to philosophers?