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Czy Hawking i Penrose spierają się o to samo, co Einstein z Bohrem?
Grygiel, Wojciech Piotr (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, 2009)
Controversies between philosophical and scientific standpoints are known to greatly enrich the human intellectual endeavour. For example, the famous controversy on the nature of the universals appears at present in the context of the philosophy of mathematics. The issue of the ontological status of quantum mechanics gave rise to a clash between two most prominent minds of the early 20th century physics: Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. A renowned contemporary mathematician, Michael Atiyah maintans, that the contemporary split between Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking is to a certain degree the continuation of the Bohr – Einstein controversy. In his paper it is argued that Atiyah’s thesis holds only in a very approximate way. Arguments of physical and philosophical import show that Penrose and Hawking draw from the scientific legacy of both Bohr and Einstein and thus do not mirror the scheme of the disputation of their venerable predecessors.
Przekroczyć nieoznaczoność. Relacje nauka – religia w myśli Wernera Heisenberga
Grygiel, Wojciech Piotr (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Krakowie, 2008)
Although the scientific milieu of the first part of the 20th century is marked by the strong influence of neopositivism, prominent physicists such as Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr stressed the necessity to transcend human sensorial cognition in quest for the ultimate sense of things and the source of the ethical values of human conduct. In particular, this comes to the fore in the context of the relations between science and religion. The stance of Werner Heisenberg in regards to this issue reveals his deep philosophical insight with emphasis on the role of the common sense language in the symbolic discourse of the traditional religions. The advent of the new scientific method in the 17th, that revolutionized the antique picture of the world, led to the final breakdown of the adequacy of the common sense language in the scientific description of the physical reality. According to Heisenberg, the relations between science and religion become most visible with the resulting loss of the symbolic religious discourse whereby access to the ethical values is hindered.
The cognitive sciences and their method: a physicist’s perspective
Grygiel, Wojciech Piotr (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Krakowie, 2015)
The contemporary research in neurobiology heavily rests on the application of complex experimental techniques. The primary aim is to determine the neuronal correlates of various mental phenomena such as abstract thinking, consciousness, free will etc. The application of the contemporary research in neurobiology to understand the nature and the function of the brain is currently having a strong impact on the classical philosophical discourse carried out in area of the philosophy of mind. In this article, a short analysis of one of the most widely used techniques in the neurobiological research is presented, namely, the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The particular emphasis is to point out to the conceptual difficulties that arise between the language used at the experimental level (spins, molecules) and how this language might acquire its meaning to eventually refer to the mental phenomena represented by appropriate neuronal structures revealed in the experiment. The apparent disunity will be most likely remedied as a more unified theory relating mental phenomena to the specificity of the most fundamental level of the physical reality becomes available.