摘要
近期社会科学哲学研究表明,将中层论运用于社会本体论研究是可行的。中层论者建议我们考虑这样一种本体论:它主张处于部分论上“不大不小”的中间层次的事物,为最底层的微观世界以及最顶层的宇宙整体提供了本体论上的奠基。尽管这个理论新颖独到,但它仍受到来自支持“鸟瞰景观”的底层论者以及支持“穹顶景观”的顶层论者的两头夹击,指责其违背了某些主流的本体论承诺。然而实际上,中层论不仅能回应上述批评,还能展示其理论优势:它能避免底层论与顶层论面临的一些理论困境,还能为社会实体的存在问题量身打造一套元形而上学方法论,进而更好地捍卫了社会本体论的学科合法性;此外,中层论与社会本体论的结合,还能在方法论上反哺当代主流科学哲学和形而上学。
Recent literature on philosophy of social sciences shows that it is feasible to apply Middle-ism to the study of social ontology.Middle-ism asserts that things in the middle level of the reality provide the ontological foundation,rather than the bottom microcosm and the top universe as a whole.Despite its novelty,the theory has come under fire from both the“bird’s-eye view”and the“vault view”for violating some of the dominant ontological promises.Standing in the Middle-ism,we could not only respond to the criticism,but also expand the theory of its significant advantage:it can avoid the underlying theory and some theoretical dilemma faced by the top theory,and tailor a metaphysical methodology for the problems of social entities,as well as defend the legitimacy of the discipline of social ontology.In addition,the combination of Middle-ism and social ontology can feed back the contemporary mainstream philosophy of science and metaphysics methodologically.
作者
陈常燊
CHEN Chang-shen(School of Philosophy and Sociology,Shanxi University,Taiyuan 030006,China)
出处
《科学技术哲学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2023年第3期18-24,共7页
Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology
基金
国家社科基金重点项目“分析的西方哲学史研究”(19AZX013)
国家社科基金后期资助一般项目“维特根斯坦与寂静主义研究”(21FZXB042)
关键词
中层论
社会实体
形而上学
社会本体论
社会科学哲学
Middle-ism
social entities
metaphysics
social ontology
philosophy of social science
作者简介
陈常燊(1980-),男,江西瑞金人,山西大学哲学社会学学院教授、博士生导师,研究方向为外国哲学、形而上学。
