Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science

IF 0.6 1区哲学 Q4 ETHICS

Philosophy of the Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI:10.1177/00483931221128516

S. Gattei

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Abstract

In Towards an Historiography of Science (1963) and in other related works spanning over his entire career, Agassi presents his wide-ranging and original understanding of the history of science. It emerges from the criticism of two distinctive approaches, each informed by the uncritical acceptance, on the part of historians, of two philosophies of science: inductivism (scientific theories emerge from facts), and conventionalism (scientific theories are mathematical frameworks for classifying facts). Both produce unsatisfactory historical reconstructions, in which errors are either concealed or condemned. Popper’s philosophy, by contrast, allows for a picture in which science grows from the recognition and criticism of our best and wisest errors.

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约瑟夫·阿加西的科学批判史学

在《走向科学史》（1963）和其他贯穿其整个职业生涯的相关著作中，阿加西展现了他对科学史的广泛而独到的理解。它源于对两种不同方法的批评，每种方法都源于历史学家对两种科学哲学的不加批判的接受：归纳主义（科学理论源于事实）和传统主义（科学学说是对事实进行分类的数学框架）。两者都产生了令人不满意的历史重建，错误要么被掩盖，要么被谴责。相比之下，波普尔的哲学允许科学从对我们最好和最明智的错误的认识和批评中发展起来。

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