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Power Problems • December 28, 2021 

# *Quantum Mind and Social Science*

What do quantum mechanics have to do with international relations? Ohio State University professor Alexander Wendt lays out a theory of the physical world based on quantum effects and explains how it might inform our approach to social science, including international politics.

**Show Notes**

- [Alexander Wendt bio](https://polisci.osu.edu/people/wendt.23)
- Alexander Wendt, *[Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology](https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mind-Social-Science-Unifying/dp/1107442923/ref=sr_1_3)*, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
- Alexander Wendt, [*Social Theory of International Politics*](https://www.amazon.com/International-Politics-Cambridge-Studies-Relations/dp/0521469600), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- Alexander Wendt, “[The Mind-Body Problem and Social Science: Motivating a Quantum Social Theory](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jtsb.12171),” *Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior* 48, (2018): pp. 188–204.

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