On The Koyre's Philosophy Of Science

Alexander Koyre's scientific philosophy is profound, his thoughts was influenced by Husserl's Phenomenology, Dohn's thoughts, such as the analytical method of scientific concept and the doctrine of the scientific development and Matthews's thoughts of scientific development, Reinach's thoughts of historical perspective, All these contributed to the Alexander Koyre's thoughts of philosophy of science.The "unity of human thought" is the thread to understand Alexander Koyre's thoughts of philosophy of science, and the history of scientific development process is the chief sources of Koyre's thoughts of philosophy of science,basing on these, Koyre carried out extensive and in-depth studied on the philosophy of science. The relationship between science and religion is the main content of Alexander Koyre's thoughts. Koyre believed that science was the process of pursuit truth, science itself is not truth, but it is the means to achieve truth and the ladder which leads to the scientific progress. The scientific progress requires scientific revolution. In the process of scientific revolution, the "thought experiments" is a very important approach. The reason is that there are lots of experiments which scientist can not do, so they could do this through the"thought experiments". Alexander Koyre has developed a relatively complete systematic thought of philosophy of science through series studies of the essence of science, the development of science and the scientific revolution.Alexander Koyre's thoughts of philosophy of science has played a very important role in the development of philosophy of science, it has important influence on the development from logical positivism to the Historicism, it also has profoundly enlightens to the development of scientific thoughts and the progress of science to Chinese scholars.