Fine's Natural Ontological Attitude And Its Postmodern Tendency

The dispute between realism and antirealism is the particular basic thesis in philosophy. As far as this dispute is concerned, Fine, a contemporary American philosopher persisted realism is dying, and antirealism also should be criticized, because both of them can't be the delicate scientific philosophical theory. Fine came up with the idea of Natural Ontological Attitude to argue for this. Its meaning can be boiled down to: science is a historical entity, it has its own history, grows up between the tension from internal and external, and bases itself in the common thinking, tries to treat science in accordance with science self, and not put some far-fetched explanation fill in science. If accept this attitude, all kinds of doctrine in philosophy of science will only a nonsense shell of science, they are senseless, and indeed can't be explained. This dissertation attempts to discuss the relative expression that Fine gave to Natural Ontological Attitude under the background of realism thesis, revolves around Natural Ontological Attitude's connotation, character, significance and its relevance to historical internalism and feminism in western philosophy, to analyze the culture and political critical standpoint come from scientific practice, and explore the role and effect that Natural Ontological Attitude plays in postmodern philosophy of science, to find its enlightenment and significance to the postmodern tendency of philosophy of science.