The rise of empiricism and the attempt to produce a unified understanding of the world, 1680-1750

经验主义的兴起和对世界产生统一理解的尝试，1680-1750

• 批准号: DP1094247
• 负责人: Prof Stephen Gaukroger
• 金额: $ 19.02万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-02-03 至 2013-11-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP1094247
• 关键词: rise; empiricism; attempt; produce; unified

Empiricism is often regarded as the characterising feature of modern scientific method, and, in those approaches to psychology and the social and economic sciences that seek to model themselves on successful scientific practice in the physical and life sciences, it often acts as a model of good practice. The project examines the original form of empiricism and shows how it was able to directly engage questions of value in a novel and revealing way, and how its connection with 'hard' sciences was not merely to provide a methodological gloss on these, but went to the core of what scientific explanation consisted in.

经验主义经常被认为是现代科学方法的特征，而且，在那些寻求以物理科学和生命科学的成功科学实践为榜样的心理学、社会和经济科学方法中，它经常充当良好实践的典范。该项目考察了经验主义的原始形式，并展示了它如何能够以一种新颖而具有启发性的方式直接参与价值问题，以及它与“硬科学”的联系如何不仅仅是为这些问题提供方法论上的解释，而是进入了科学解释的核心。