![]() ![]() ) That is, Einstein was willing to consider the status of the physico-philosophical notions in the light of his scientific discoveries. Hans Reichenbach characterized Einstein as a philosopher by implication but also speaks of the ‘philosophical consequences’ of Einstein’s work. We can consider them as physico-philosophical notions because they are not tied to any particular physical theory and have often been the subject of philosophical reflection from the Greeks to the present day. According to Max Born the revision of old concepts has to happen under the constraints of new experience. This means that general notions, like mass, energy, time, space, causation, determinism, which are used in human attempts to construct coherent schemes of nature, have undergone radical changes as a result of scientific discoveries, such as those associated with the Special and General theory of relativity (STR, GTR) and Quantum Mechanics (QM). But Einstein’s work did introduce a philosophical revolution in our fundamental notions. ![]() Einstein himself did not see his theory as a ‘revolutionary act’. There is much to be said for the view that Einstein’s Special theory of relativity completes classical physics, especially the work of James C. Maxwell. He uses the Lorentz transformations for the calculation of spatial and temporal measurements in the transition from one reference frame to another. But was it a revolutionary paper? Einstein generalizes the Galilean relativity principle to include electro-magnetic phenomena he postulates the velocity of light in vacuum as an upper speed limit on all phenomena. It is generally agreed that it is one of the most important scientific papers ever written. Problem-Situationsġ On SeptemAlbert Einstein’s paper ‘On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies’ appeared in the Annalen der Physik. Les travaux sur Einstein ont souvent négligé l’étude des contraintes en philosophie des sciences.Īlbert Einstein (…) is a Kantian and a Greek empirical rationalist rather than a Humean British positivisic empiricist On peut noter en particulier, ses vues sur l’aspect représentationnel des théories scientifiques et son insistance, à leur sujet, sur la notion de contraintes. Dans une certaine mesure, ces conséquences philosophiques peuvent être considérées comme étant des réponses à des questions philosophiques. Ces conséquences philosophiques vont de la métaphysique à la philosophie de la physique. ![]() Einstein déduisait les conséquences philosophiques de la problématique que son travail de physicien faisait surgir. En explorant les conséquences philosophiques de ses travaux scientifiques Einstein s’inscrit dans la démarche de physiciens tels que Newton, Mach, Planck et Poincaré. Einstein n’était pas un philosophe de métier, mais son raisonnement en sciences physiques portait en soi des conséquences philosophiques qu’il était prêt à explorer. Cet article a pour objectif de présenter un compte-rendu accessible de l’immense héritage philosophique de l’œuvre scientifique d’Einstein. ![]()
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