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The Technical Practical Explanation Of The Scientific Revolution

Posted on:2019-05-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B J PanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2370330548967760Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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As an important historical and theoretical issue,the scientific revolution is a very important research topic in the field of science history and scientific philosophy.On the one hand,the research on scientific revolution can help to understand the nature of the scientific development process,on the other hand,it can also help to examine science through that philosophy and promote the development of philosophy of science.Kant said:"philosophy of science without history of science is empty,history of science without philosophy of science is blind",so we study of the scientific revolution also should walk on two legs,to understand the scientific revolution,as the important historical events,and also to have a historical and theoretical investigation of the scientific revolution with new view of scientific philosophy.Nowadays,with the rapid development of the philosophy of science,people have broke the traditional view of science,the science is only the theoretical knowledge,have realize that science is an important technical practical activity in human society.Latour is one of the typical representative of this view,he put forward the slogan"science in action",realized practicalness of the modern science and technology,referred to this science as "technoscience" by tracking scientists and conducting the anthropological investigation of the life of a scientist's laboratory.Therefore,it is both feasible and necessary to make a comprehensive survey of scientific revolution based on the recognition of scientific technology practicalness.The most outstanding research results of the scientific revolutions are Thomas Kuhn's "the Structure of the Scientific revolution" and Bernard Cohen's "Revolution in Science".Kuhn discourse on scientific revolution caused extensive discussion of the scientific revolution.On the one hand,Cohen examines the history of the concept of the scientific revolution,on the other hand,has compiled a detailed scientific revolution history.This provides a breakthrough for research the scientific revolution based on the view of science of technical practicalness.On these ground,this paper will reveal the technical practicalness of scientific revolution from theory and practice.In theory,it reveals the technological practicalness of transformation of scientific literature,scientific experiment and scientific network system in the scientific revolution.In practice,it reveals the technical practicalness of Lavoisier chemical revolution that is the typical representative of the scientific revolution.Technical practical interpretation of scientific revolution will deepen our understanding of the nature of technical practicalness of science,to realize technical practicalness of the social revolution that is caused by the rapid development of science and technology in the realistic society.
Keywords/Search Tags:science, the scientific revolution, technical practice, Latour
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