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The Analysis On Popper's Scientific Philosophy Thoughts

Posted on:2012-03-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J N HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120330332497985Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Karl Popper, one of the contemporary Western famous philosophers of science, and his study focus on science, philosophy and sociology, and achieved fruitful results and far-reaching effects, especially the achievements in the philosophy of science researchHe discussed the issue of demarcation and induction, criticized confirmation principle of the Vienna school, and put forward his own critical reason,"Falsification ". Based on this, he also proposed trial and error as the core of the scientific development of dynamic models, which had a tremendous impact on contemporary scientific Prevailing philosophy of logical empiricism.Since then, philosophy of science turned in direction, got rid of the narrow logic empiricism of the Vienna schools. Popper's Falsification continental philosophy as a whole has a tendency to falsification principle of "three worlds" theory and the theory of evolution as the main content of knowledge.The basic idea of modern philosophy of science took shape in between rationalism and empiricism epistemology, based on the arguments and the people on the inductive and deductive methodology. As a result, the two controversial issues isuch as the starting point for understanding the problems, cognitive problems and understanding the process problems have been explored.The early philosophy of science has been discussed on these issues, once into the corner. Popper took Falsificationism as core ideology, so that people from Logical Empiricism can get out of dead ends, re-examine the analysis problem, the problem of induction and growth issues and the ancient knowledge of the relationship between mind and body, which results in philosophy of science of new life into a new situation. If this history needs reexamined, analysis of this series of Popper's ideas should be deepened. Philosophy of science research in China started late in China, retrospective studies can only be traced back to 1940s. The study of Popper's thought is even later, from the 70s of last century. Around the mid-80s, Popper's thought in the Chinese mainland has been widespread concern.The enthusiasm of the scholars on his thought is extremely high; especially Mr. Qiu Renzong translated and promoted Popper's works. The first academic book is Popper's autobiography, "Infinite Exploration - Popper Thinking of autobiography"In the 80's, Popper's book "Logic of Scientific Discovery, ""conjecture and refutation - the growth of scientific knowledge" etc. have been translated and published. Shu Wai-kwong, to that period, represented the leader of the philosophy of science of Popper's philosophy of science to open for a more extensive study.After Popper died, his philosophy of science in China once again set off a new research climax. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Natural Dialectics held a special symposium after his death. The new century, the occasion of the birth of his century, his ideas is in high tide again from which the whole philosophy of science studies benefit. In the third climax, the domestic scholars and researchers began to re-examine Popper, from a new perspective to understand his ideas. Research, explore, analyze and debate around his works, we have a thorough understanding of Popper's ideas.From the Philosophy of Science'two core issues - the problem of demarcation and the problem of induction have been introduced to the core of Popper's thought system - Falsificationism introduction in this paper. First and foremost the principle of falsification, Popper cited many examples, analyze in-depth, and refuted the core doctrine of the traditional base - the principle of inductionThe "three worlds" theories are: the physical world, spiritual world, objective knowledge of the world, was in turn called the World 1, World 2 and World 3, the link between the three worlds is close. The criticism of rational criticism of induction and humanities reasonable criticism are highlighted.The theory of knowledge evolution analyzes the origin of life and consciousness, the evolution from low to high-level development, and contacts the brain as a bridge between consciousness and body-oriented role. Finally, a brief assessment of sociology and history of its great impact caused by critical historical determinism is argued, and from its core perspective, the relationship between social progress and historical tradition, the meaning of this criticism is discussed.
Keywords/Search Tags:Three worlds, Criticizing the rational, Falsificationism
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