本书由11个专题组成,涉及数学哲学、物理学哲学、生命科学哲学、复杂系统科学哲学、认知科学哲学等.

本书内容包括:当代科学哲学的困境与焦点问题、科学实在论的问题及其演变、当代科学实在论的困境与出路、科学实在论的语境重建、语境论的实在观等.

本书受教育部2004年哲学社会科学研究重大课题攻关项目“当代科学哲学的发展趋势研究”和教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地——山西大学科学技术哲学研究中心基金资助.

Ben shu fen wei yi ban ke xue zhe xue,Zi ran ke xue zhe xue yu shu xue zhe xue,She hui ke xue zhe xue,Ren zhi yu xin li xue zhe xue,Ke xue ji shu yu she hui wu ge bu fen,Ju ti nei rong bao kuo:gui fan xing wen ti de yu yi zhuan xiang yu yu yong jin lu,Gui ze zun xun yu yi yi de gui fan xing,Dang dai wu li xue zhe xue de yan jiu xian (...) zhuang ji qu shi,Guai ren jia she yu fu xian xiang lun deng. (shrink)

In the study of contextualism, the most noticeable and at the same time ambiguous problem is how to ascertain the boundaries of context. This article tries to explore the boundaries of context and the significance of the contextualizing movement which began in the 1980s. The establishment of boundaries can be analyzed from three aspects: the syntactic boundary, the semantic boundary, and the pragmatic boundary. This differentiation offers meaningful perspectives for grasping the method of contextual analysis, strengthening its position and influence (...) in scientific explanation. (shrink)

The essential significance of scientific metaphor lies in applying the general metaphorical theory to specific interpretations and elaborations of scientific theories to form a methodology of scientific explanation. It is a contextual grasp of objective reality. A given metaphorical context and its grasp of the essence of reality can only be valid when the context is continually restructured. Taking the context as a whole, the methodological characteristic of scientific metaphor lies in the unity of understanding and choice, experience and concepts, (...) semantic structures and metaphorical domains, rationality and irrationality. As a form of thinking based on reasons, scientific metaphor plays an important role in invention, representation, explanation, evaluation, and communication. (shrink)

本书以20世纪哲学和自然科学的历史发展为背景,通过客观地总结过去一个世纪中科学哲学以及数学哲学、物理哲学、化学哲学和生命科学哲学等各具体科学哲学理论演变的动因和特征,系统地评述了科学哲学理论在科学发展 史的理性地位,内在地展示了科学哲学理论思维作为一种科学方法论在科学中的作用和意义,从而对科学哲学的21世纪发展的基点和可能走向给出了一种趋向性的描述。.

This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference. The invitees are experts in philosophy of science and technology from Asia (besides China), Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, as well as from within China. The papers in this volume represent the latest work of each researcher in his or her expertise; and as a result, they give a good representation of the cutting-edge researches in diverse areas in different parts (...) of the world. (shrink)