工程哲学:技术哲学经验转向的对象性成果

技术哲学研究走向成熟的同时也暴露出了这一学科本身研究范式上的缺陷,由此引发了当代西方技术哲学的经验转向.技术哲学的"经验转向"不仅是研究方法的转向,更重要的是研究对象的转向,即将工程正式纳入哲学研究的范畴,进而开辟一个新的研究领域--工程哲学.     

The philosophy of chemistry

Although chemistry is by far the largest scientific discipline according to any quantitative measure, it had, until recently, been virtually ignored by professional philosophers of science. They left both a vacuum and a one-sided picture of science tailored to physics. Since the early 1990s, the situation has changed drastically, such that philosophy of chemistry is now one of the most flourishing fields in the philosophy of science, like the philosophy of biology that emerged in the 1970s. This article narrates the development and provides a survey of the main topics and trends.