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理查德.罗蒂通过重新思考科学实在论的三个主要问题来达到超越传统科学实在论的目的:一是关于“不同世界”的话题;二是理论实体如电子是否实在地存在;三是“指导着科学家的工作并使他们的观点趋向一致的世界的观念”。在此基础上,罗蒂以亲和性取代客观性,试图消解科学的客观性与真理性,从而进一步弱化传统的实在论观念。科学不能排除主体性因素的影响,而且在一定程度上,还需要主体性因素作重要的补充,但是科学在本质上是合乎理性的、客观的认识活动。罗蒂试图完全否定科学的客观性与真理性的做法是行不通的。作为文化的、实践的科学只能是客观性与主体性的辩证统一。
Richard Rorty achieves the goal of transcending the traditional scientific realism by rethinking the three major issues of scientific realism: one is about “different worlds”; the other is whether or not the theoretical entity, such as electrons, really exists; Third is the concept of a world that guides the work of scientists and tends their ideas toward unity. On this basis, Rorty replaced the objectivity with affinity and tried to dispel the objectivity and truth of science so as to further weaken the traditional concept of realism. Science can not rule out the influence of subjectivity. To a certain extent, subjectivity needs to be supplemented. However, science is essentially a rational and objective cognitive activity. Rorty’s attempt to completely deny the objectivity and truth of science does not work. As a cultural, practical science can only be the dialectical unity of objectivity and subjectivity.