The Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge: Beyond Rationality, Realism, and Social Constructivism

劳斯博士正在追踪科学的新形象和概念化的新方法的出现，并从对现实主义和科学合理性的哲学和社会学争议的批评中调查科学知识。这些争论通常假定科学知识的概念是一个表征的主体，其内容和与世界的关系必须得到解释，无论是通过科学“内部”的原因和证据，还是科学知识及其时间动态的“外部”社会和实践体现。劳斯博士认为，这些争论过于简单化和扭曲了科学的政治和文化意义，试图维护或挑战科学事业的合法性。劳斯博士试图对科学的这些方面进行更充分的说明，用他的说明直接批评科学知识的“内容”概念及其对象的“本体论地位”，这些概念在理性和实在论的争论中是有争议的。他的目的是展示这些争议中的立场是如何从它们在他所认为的关于“现代合法性"的有问题的文化冲突中的位置中获得明显的意义的。"

Dr. Rouse is tracing the emergence of new images of science and new ways of conceptualizing and investigating scientific knowledge from criticism of philosophical and sociological disputes over realism and the rationality of science. These disputes typically presume a conception of scientific knowledge as a body of representations whose content and relation to the world must be explained, whether by reasons and evidence "internal" to science, or "external" social and practical embodiment of scientific knowledge and its temporal dynamics. Dr. Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify and distort the political and cultural significance of the sciences in their attempt to vindicate or challenge the legitimacy of the scientific enterprise. Dr. Rouse is attempting to develop a more adequate account of these aspects of the sciences, using his account to criticize directly the concepts of the "content" of scientific knowledge and the "ontological status" of its objects which are at issue in the rationality and realism disputes. He aims to show how the positions in these disputes derive their apparent significance from their place within what he sees as problematic cultural conflicts over the "legitimacy of the modern age."