Pluralism as a New Framework for Integrated HPS

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· 발행기관 : 한국과학철학회
· 수록지 정보 : 과학철학 / 17권 / 2호 / 153 ~ 173페이지
· 저자명 : 장하석

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A kind of monism prevalent among philosophers of science was an important cause of the demise of the tradition of integrated history and philosophy of science (HPS). This monism assumed that there was one method common to all science, and that this method was the means of creating or selecting the one best possible theory about nature. Finding this perspective too narrow and unrealistic, many historians of science turned away from philosophy as a framework for history. I argue that the traditional HPS project can be re-founded on the basis of pluralism, which recognizes the co-existence of multiple systems of practice in a given field as a normal and healthy state of science. This opens the possibility of recognizing various valid developmental patterns in science, and of conceiving the historiography of science as the elucidation and collection of developmental patterns in science. Not only would such pluralism stop the philosophical alienation of historians wary of forcing the past into one ill-fitting mould, but it would also give every historical episode philosophical significance and interest. Thus we can bring back a venerable old idea, in a new way: philosophical ideas about how science develops provide appropriate frameworks for historiography.

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