Beyond Form and Content: The Philosophy of Moritz Schlick

超越形式和内容：莫里茨·施里克的哲学

• 批准号: 9213659
• 负责人: Thomas Oberdan
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-08-15 至 1994-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9213659&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Beyond; Form; Content; Philosophy; Moritz

A major purpose for the philosophy of science is to explain, and hence to justify, what science is and why its theories should be accepted as true. Another aim of philosophy of science was to prescribe what "good" science is. Contemporary philosophy of science, however, has largely abandoned this prescriptive task and has instead concentrated on a descriptive mode of operation. This role is not an unimportant one. In an age of skepticism about science and acceptance of mystical and occult sources of knowledge it is important that the basis of scientific truth be fully understood. Dr. Oberdan is examining one of the founders of modern philosophy of science, Moritz Schlick, the leader of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists. Dr. Oberdan aims to provide a biographical as well as intellectual background to Schlick's work. Under this grant, he is examining Schlick's early life and career, especially the development of his philosophical views of relativity theory and the initial stage of his Positivist thought. The importance of this study is directly related to two central issues in the philosophy of science: the nature of causality and the positivism- realism dispute. Given the rise of quantum theory with its probabilistic foundations, uncertainty principle, and wave/particle duality, the questions of causality and the "real" existence of theoretical entities have become even more contentious in contemporary physics. The positions that Schlick offered are important for our understanding of how philosophy and science have addressed these questions. Dr. Oberdan's study promises to make significant contributions to our understanding of the foundations of these debates.

科学哲学的一个主要目的是解释， 因此，为了证明什么是科学，为什么它的理论应该是 接受为真。 科学哲学的另一个目标是 说明什么是“好”的科学。 当代哲学 然而，科学在很大程度上已经放弃了这一规定性的任务， 而是集中在描述性的操作模式上。 这 角色并不是不重要的。 在一个怀疑 科学和接受神秘和神秘的知识来源 科学真理的基础必须充分 明白 奥伯丹博士正在研究现代哲学的奠基人之一 维也纳科学圈的领导人莫里茨石里克 逻辑实证主义 奥伯丹博士的目的是提供一个传记， 以及对石里克研究的知识背景。 根据本 格兰特，他正在研究石里克的早期生活和职业生涯，特别是 相对论哲学观的发展， 他的实证主义思想的最初阶段。 的重要性 这项研究直接涉及两个中心问题， 科学哲学：因果关系的本质和实证主义 现实主义之争 鉴于量子理论的兴起及其 概率基础、测不准原理和波/粒子 二元性、因果性问题和“真实的”存在性 理论实体变得更加有争议， 当代物理学 石里克提供的职位是 对于我们理解哲学和科学如何 解决了这些问题。 奥伯丹博士的研究承诺 对我们理解基础的重大贡献 这些辩论。