认知迭代——早期温度测量体现的科学进步  

Epistemic Iteration——Scientific Progress of Early Temperature Measurement

作　　者：石诚[1] 

机构地区：[1]南京大学哲学系,南京210093

出　　处：《自然辩证法研究》2008年第3期20-25,共6页Studies in Dialectics of Nature

摘　　要：认识论的辩护主要分为基础主义和融贯主义。针对两者各自的理论困境,哲学家们提出了基础融贯论、无限主义、文本主义(contextualism)等理论,但是学界一直没有定论。而将融贯主义的辩护运用到经验科学领域中会出现最大的难题——"辩护的循环"。哈索克.张(Hasok Chang)从早期温度测量的案例研究着手,揭示出此段科学史中融贯主义的"辩护的循环"难题可以通过认知迭代得以解决。认知迭代的两种机制——丰富和自纠的交互作用,使创造温度显现出一种传统主义和多元主义结合的科学进步图景。Justification of epistemology can be broadly divided into foundationalism and conheretism. Facing their theoretical difficulties, philosophers have put forward foundherentism, infinitism, contextualism, and other theories, but no consenus has been reached on it. The use of justification of conheretism in the field of empirical science faces the biggest problem--circularity of justification. According to the case of early temperature measurement, Hasok Chang reveals that conheretism circularity of Justification can be solved through epistemic iteration in this section of the history of science. Ttwo mechanisms of epistemic iteration--enrichment and self--correction--interact to show a scientific progress of traditionalism and pluralism in the process of inventing temperature.

关 键 词：认知迭代 固定点 科学进步 融贯主义 

分 类 号：N09[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学] B017[哲学宗教—哲学理论]