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Paradigm Shift In The Philosophy Of Science From The Logical To The Historical Pattern

Posted on:2014-12-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2260330401958178Subject:Marxist philosophy
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The research of Philosophy of Science about science and its development pattern has experienced a change which is from logicism pattern to science historicism pattern since the Natural Science establishes. Through the positivism, falsification-ism and historism, Philosophy of Science rethinks Science itself and its developing. With amount of data analyzing, I find that researches about change from logicism pattern to science historicism pattern of Philosophy of Science are less comprehensive and have a small number. Of course, what I mean is that people pay less attention to the transformation. Father more, since the last century, each science has been developing rapidly. In this way, new science always inspires new ideas of Philosophy of Science and at the same time these new ideas in turn are pushing forward science development. Finally, the development of science will have a big impact on our society life. So, the development of Philosophy of Science have a prodigious significance for human beings. Through learning the transformation of Philosophy of Science patterns, including the reason, process and result, we can understand scientific practice in reality better. The paper aims to elucidate transformation of Philosophy of Science’s study about scientific pattern from the1900s to the1970s by analyzing the Philosophy of Science’s attitude and practical pattern to science. There are three parts in this paper. The first part is about the meanings of three different thought logic of the Philosophy of Science, including positivism, falsification-ism and historism. The second part is analyzing internal structure of the three different thought logic of the Philosophy of Science, studying their Philosophical connections and evaluating their arguments. The third part is to introspect the process of Philosophy of Science’s logic transformation, including the reasons and scientific enlightenment. In this parts, I will use the theory of mechanics to help to understand the change.
Keywords/Search Tags:Philosophy of Science, transformation, comparison, introspection
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