科学解释与科学理解——重思亨普尔覆盖律模型  

Scientifc Explanation and Understanding: Hempel’s Covering Law Model Revisited

作　　者：胡星铭[1] HU Xingming(Department of Philosophy,Nanjing University,Nanjing,Jiangsu,210000)

机构地区：[1]南京大学哲学系,江苏南京210000

出　　处：《自然辩证法通讯》2022年第2期45-52,共8页Journal of Dialectics of Nature

摘　　要：根据一种传统的观点,科学的目标是解释而非理解。然而,包括爱因斯坦和亨普尔在内的许多著名科学家和哲学家都认为科学的目标是理解。但一些人坚持认为,即使这些著名科学家和哲学家用到"理解"这个词,他们只是随便一说;"解释是科学的目标"才是他们严肃认真的看法,至少对于亨普尔是如此。本文反驳了这一观点,探讨了"科学的目标是理解"这一观点与覆盖律模型的关系。在此基础上,本文也简略讨论了科学中的语境主义与反语境主义。According to a traditional view,science aims at interpretation instead of understanding.However,many famous scientists and philosophers,including Einstein and Hempel,believe that science aims at understanding.But some people insist that even if these famous scientists and philosophers use the word “understanding”,they just say it casually.“Interpretation is the aim of science” is their serious view,at least for Hempel.This paper refutes this view and discusses the relationship between the view that “science aims at understanding” and the covering law model.On this basis,this paper also briefly discusses contextualism and anti-contextualism in science.

关 键 词：理解 科学解释 亨普尔 覆盖律模型 语境主义 

分 类 号：N0[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学] D920.5[政治法律—法学]