THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEM
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Los experimentos imaginarios en física involucran cuestiones filosóficas tales como: ¿cómo podemos aprender del mundo por medio de pensar acerca de escenarios imaginarios? Filósofos realistas y empiristas confrontan esa cuestión desatendiendo que tales experimentos son sobre sistemas idealizados. Intentamos sostener que los experimentos imaginarios, debido a su propia naturaleza, no pueden proporcionar nuevo conocimiento ─enunciados verdaderos confirmados─ ni nuevos datos empíricos del mundo físico. Más bien, como Kuhn mantiene, su significación reside en mejorar nuestro aparato conceptual, permitiendo una nueva comprensión del mundo físico. Como caso de estudio, analizamos la paradoja Einstein, Podolsky y Rosen para dar soporte a esas aserciones. El tema nuevo propuesto en este artículo consiste en el estudio de esa paradoja a la luz de la concepción epistemológica de Kuhn de los experimentos imaginarios.
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