摘要
叙述的科学哲学或许可以为吴国盛在新作《什么是科学》中流露的非本质主义科学观背书,但其以向外的"求力意志"来解释近代科学中实验传统的出现,与古希腊科学基于"自由"、"理性"的精神不协调,而将实验传统看作以技术求力方式排除外在干扰,维护自然的理想性、纯粹性和内在演绎性则更为合适。写作方式上,该书具有"周详—周纳"的特殊主义方法性困难。从概率上看,在两个足够大的群体的足够长的历史中,不同文化可以产生相同的亚文化样态,而如果加以合适的选择机制和目标引导,那么,中国科学的可能样式或许会类似于某些现代科学(如热力学和进化论),以从经验到理论的方式发展出来。
Narrative philosophy of science,I recommend here,could endorse the nonessentialist view of science implied in What Is Science,a recent book written by Wu Guosheng.But the external concept of 'will to power' applied to explain the emergence of the experimental tradition in modern science is uncoordinated with ancient Greek science based on freedom and rationality.It is more reasonable to regard such a tradition as one to keep the ideality,purity and inner deduction by technological power.The book has a lot of methodological problems because of its writing style of specialist.It is probable that different cultures produce the same sub-cultural traits between two sufficiently large populations with sufficiently long histories.If the adequate mechanics of selections and induction of aims had been given,the possible developmental model of Chinese science would have been brought forth in a way from experiences to theories,just as what happened to some modern sciences,e.g.thermodynamics and the theory of evolution.
出处
《哲学分析》
CSSCI
2017年第2期14-34,195,共21页
Philosophical Analysis
基金
国家社科基金重大项目"基于虚拟现实的实验研究对实验哲学的超越"(项目编号:15ZDB016)的阶段性成果
关键词
叙述的科学哲学
自由和理性
特殊主义困难
中国科学的可能样式
narrative philosophy of science
freedom and rationality
specialist problems
the possible developmental model of Chinese science
作者简介
颜青山，华东师范大学哲学系教授。
