PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC CIVILIZATION

Kuhn’s Philosophy of Scientific Practice

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University The opening sentence of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is often thought to be prophetic. Kuhn proclaimed that “history of science ... could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed” (1970, p. 1). In the decade or so after the book was published in 1962, the dominant philosophical conception of science, logi...

Scientific Analysis of the Commonness in Human Civilization

Contrary with the opinion and idea that the civilization difference induces the civilization conflicts, the commonness of civilization is more important in fact. In the various past researches about the civilization comparison, most scholars emphasized to review and look the differences among different civilizations, and deduced that the differences induced the conflicts. However, the differenc...

Strategic knowledge maps of the techno-scientific network (SK maps)

Philosophy, Ontology, and Scientific Explanation

Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man

THE aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under 'things in the broadest possible sense' I include such radically different items as not only 'cabbages and kings', but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve su...