Since indeterminacy
the new picture of the physical world at the end of modernity
pp. 253-262
in: Dimitri Ginev, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Issues and images in the philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstract
Indeterminism in modern physics has supposed an important change of paradigms for our scientific understanding of physical reality. In fact this change, from a philosophical point of view, is still stimulating a lot of reflections and discussions which hold a great conceptual significance, in such a way that the philosophical virtualities of the new indeterministic paradigm are very far from being exhausted. These theoretical possibilities especially refer to the ontological and epistemological levels, which, as a rule, are connected to one another a natural extent. In this work, I will mainly pay attention to some ontological consequences originating in indeterminism, that is to say, to some new philosophical categories that can be considered a legacy of science to philosophy at the end of Modernity.