Relationship between Philosophy and Science Viewed from the Perspective of Scientific Revolution: To Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
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- 2013年02期
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- Title:
- Relationship between Philosophy and Science Viewed from the Perspective of Scientific Revolution: To Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Author(s):
- WANG Rong-jiang
- Keywords:
- scientific revolution; philosophical thinking; normal science; crises in normal science; paradigm shift
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- Abstract:
- The scientific revolution is a paradigm shift from the old theory to a new one, which is characterized by new fundamental concepts and hypotheses as well as the scientific theories accepted by the scientific community. The new concepts and hypotheses are the product of a few scientists with advanced philosophical thinking, especially completed at the period of crisis in science and at the level of philosophical thinking. It is not to say that scientists can only be guided by philosophy, but they must do what philosophers can and even cannot do in scientific innovation. The relationship between philosophy and science is that between why questions and how questions. This type of relationship still holds when it comes to the relationship between philosophy and a specific science whenever it is at the stage of establishment or in the process of revolution.
Last Update: 2013-04-30