Cassirer’s functionalist account of physical truth: object, measurement and technology

IF 1.2 3区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI:10.1007/s11007-024-09650-6

Benedetta Spigola

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Abstract

In this paper I focus on Cassirer’s functionalist theory of truth in order to argue that the Positivistic theory of knowledge fails to explain how it is that physics provides us with truth-evaluable and reliably objective descriptions of the world. This argument is based on Cassirer’s idea that what the Positivistic theory of knowledge normally considers as the “factual” of physics is, in fact, unachievable and falsely conceived. I show that Cassirer’s focus on how measurement is made possible, as well as how technological instruments are put to use in physical research, enables him to offer an alternative account of truth, i.e., a functionalist theory of truth, which is philosophically attractive and rationally plausible.

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卡西勒对物理真理的功能主义解释：物体、测量和技术

在本文中，我将重点讨论卡西勒的功能主义真理理论，以论证实证主义知识理论无法解释物理学是如何为我们提供具有真理价值和可靠客观的世界描述的。这一论证基于卡西勒的观点，即实证主义知识论通常认为的物理学 "事实 "实际上是无法实现的，是错误的设想。我的论点是，卡西勒关注测量是如何实现的，以及在物理研究中如何使用技术工具，这使他能够提供关于真理的另一种解释，即关于真理的功能主义理论，这种理论在哲学上是有吸引力的，在理性上也是可信的。

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