What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can science explain everything? This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. Beginning with a short history of science to set the scene, Samir Okasha goes on to investigate the nature of scientific reasoning, scientific explanation, revolutions in science, and theories such as realism and anti-realism. He also looks at philosophical issues in particular sciences, including the problem of classification in biology, and the nature of space and time in physics. The final chapter touches on the conflicts between science and religion, and explores whether science is ultimately a good thing.
序言 李醒民 从1978年读研究生算起,我接触、关注、研究科学哲学(philosophy of science)已有三十个年头了。文章和著作没有少撰写,译文和译著没有少迻译,阅读的科学哲学书籍当然不会太少。但是,像手头这本通俗易懂、言简意赅、语句流畅的《科学哲学》一书,我着实是第一...
評分什么是philosophy of science呢? 要回答这个问题似乎要先回答什么是philosophy, 什么是science. 如果是这样的话,这本小书就无法写成了。更不可能进入“very short introduction系列了” 作者Samir巧妙地用维特更斯坦的方法巧妙滴绕开了冗长而又歧义的定义。先用常识下定义,...
評分花了三四个小时在旅行路上读的。 某种意义上,哲学的各种主义也是一种信仰,然而科学哲学却很奇妙,它其中的一部分部分恰恰是在破除对科学的信仰、与科学神教为敌。对科学的迷信被破除,甚至信任都少了三分,但对科学的爱却更深了。毕竟太多的宗教和主义都那么狂妄自负,其实不...
評分这本书虽然是科学哲学的一个简要导论,但是仔细阅读后,有很大的收获。 第一章里面,对于卡尔.波普尔的科学理论的可证伪原则的讨论,简洁明了,以前只知道可证伪原则,并没有考虑其局限性。 第二章到第四章,个人认为主要是围绕科学任务中的解释来展开讨论,例如归纳推理,最佳...
評分前两天帝都小憩,返程路上偶遇一位佛系的出租车司机。一路放着梵语的音乐,聊嗨了饶有兴致的和我聊起他的佛缘以及佛文化使他的顿悟:世界观的打开以及认知的颠覆。坦白说,我是无宗教信仰者,但对于信仰的人绝对的尊重,甚至我以为通常,有信仰的人情有所依,往往幸福感更高。...
With an enriched overall review of the history of science and philosophy of science, the book written in easily-comprehensible English is recommended to both academic and layman readers, although I find the author's critique of Popper is weak and unconvincing and his putting economy and sociology into the category of science is highly questionable
评分在多大看完的.平時關注實驗和數據比較多,所以裏麵討論太過理論的部分並沒有觸動我.印象比較深刻的算是最後部分討論科學和宗教的.
评分What is science? Do we have faith in the inferences that science uses to draw conclusions? What is the interpretation of probability? What exactly is science explanation, based on covering law or causality? Is scientific knowledge limited by our powers of observation?
评分科學傢的地位頗似婆羅門——知識和真理的壟斷者,被貼上科學標簽的事物都招來盲目崇拜。有何不可?科學是最直接的現世利益提供者,“信科學,得至樂”的概念深得人心一點都不奇怪。但是,科學傢掌握的知識是否真正反映瞭客觀現實?追隨者齣於私欲的深信不疑跟科學強調的價值中立(value-free)是否衝突?科學探索方法本身局限性能否引領人走嚮真理?這些問題,哲學傢更有發言權。有哲學傢對人類知識下過最狠的詛咒“認識永遠是有條件的,是受有限之經驗製約的,如果理性把相對的、有限的經驗絕對化,自以為已經把握瞭整體、全部或無限,就會陷入一種假象。”某種意義上,哲學是科學崇拜狂潮中最後的清明和良心。
评分What is science? Do we have faith in the inferences that science uses to draw conclusions? What is the interpretation of probability? What exactly is science explanation, based on covering law or causality? Is scientific knowledge limited by our powers of observation?
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