Doctoral Dissertation Research: Quantum Physics and the Future

博士论文研究：量子物理与未来

• 批准号: 1354306
• 负责人: Susan Harding
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-03-15 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1354306&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Quantum; Physics

Under the supervision of Susan Harding, Ph.D. student Christopher Cochran will adopt an ethnographic approach to study of the normative aspects of physics practice that shape subjectivity and the authority of the discipline. He will also document the ways that other scientists are collaborating with or using the work of quantum physicists, e.g. psychiatrists who collaborate with theoretical physicists to apply mathematical techniques of quantum field theory to neuronal networks, and analytic philosophers who hope that paradoxes of the mind-body problem can be fixed with concepts from quantum physics. The co-PI will investigate how concerns about the future are implicated in attempts to invent new ways of articulating scientific questions and new methods to obtain answers and may result in the creation of a new social/scientific formation. The research promises to promote scientific literacy about quantum physics by encouraging understanding of the difference between empiricism and speculation. After completing the dissertation the co-PI plans on publishing his results as a book aimed at a wide public audience.

在苏珊·哈丁的指导下，博士生克里斯托弗·科克伦将采用民族志的方法来研究塑造主观性和学科权威的物理实践的规范方面。他还将记录其他科学家与量子物理学家合作或使用量子物理学家工作的方式，例如，精神病学家与理论物理学家合作，将量子场论的数学技术应用于神经网络，分析哲学家希望用量子物理学的概念来解决身心问题的悖论。联合项目负责人将调查对未来的关注如何与试图发明阐明科学问题的新方法和获得答案的新方法有关，并可能导致创造新的社会/科学形态。这项研究有望通过鼓励理解经验主义和推测主义之间的区别来提高对量子物理学的科学素养。完成论文后，共同pi计划出版他的结果作为一本书针对广大公众的观众。