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On the Thought of B.C.Van Fraassen’s Anti-realism

Author: ChenXianFeng
Tutor: WangJing
School: Southwestern University
Course: Philosophy of Science and Technology
Keywords: Van Fraassen Anti - realism Construct empiricism Experience appropriateness Rescue phenomenon
CLC: N02
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Scientific realism and anti-realism debate has deep historical roots, from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages to the 20th century, realism and anti-realism in the debate around some philosophical questions; twentieth century, the theory of relativity provides a theoretical background to the research, Einstein and quantum mechanics represented by the Copenhagen School controversy concern, these arguments for scientific realism and anti-realism debate, Van Fraassen's anti-realist thinking is to establish the basis of the results on the study of the philosophy of quantum mechanics is absorbed. This paper analyzes the main issues of realism and anti-realism debate, a more comprehensive overview of the ideological and the Van Fraassen anti realism, and a brief review of its theoretical impact. Van Fraassen's anti-realist thinking is constructive empiricism, that construct and Empiricism unified. He advocated the theory of an objective world in general to adapt the model the theoretical construction purpose is not to guarantee exactly the same with the objective world, but to fit in the observable phenomenon. He believes that the goal of science is observable matter of understanding or \save the phenomenon \Van Fraassen's anti-realist thinking is also a unified semantic analysis methods and pragmatics. Semantic analysis involves theoretical model on the relationship between theory and world issues, he believes that the theoretical definitions and theoretical assumptions constitute the theory, these two parts in semantic structure, they determine the specific theory given The logic of the state space. Van Fraassen think the description is fully functional, users with the theory, rather than new correspondence between theory and fact, an answer to a question is determined by contextual factors, Scientific Explanation not pure science, but scientific applications. The Van Fraassen anti realism with dialectical thinking, construct empirical, semantics and pragmatics characteristics. His theory is a dialectical unity of the subjective and objective, his anti-realism is also the organic unity of semantics and pragmatics school reflects the dialectical way of thinking; Context on, beyond the traditional philosopher only from the theoretical and the world relationship illustrates the narrowness of the problem reflects the uniqueness of their thoughts; he introduces the idea of ??a state-space methods given the significance of the theoretical model to open, embodies the spirit of open-minded scientific. However, he thought there are inadequacies, distinguish between aspects and experience in empirical statements and theoretical statements appropriateness hand.

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