重新认识卡尔纳普的逻辑构造观

Reconsidering Carnap's Views of The Logical Structure

  • 摘要: 卡尔纳普的逻辑构造思想长期以来被纳入经验主义传统,以罗素的外部世界纲领来确立其哲学意义。但越来越多的哲学家对这种传统解读提出质疑和挑战,普遍倾向于认可广义的康德主义对卡尔纳普思想的影响。在新康德主义看来,卡尔纳普逻辑构造思想的重心在于构造理论,而不在于认识系统,其目标是通过纯结构性限定摹状来说明一切科学概念的特性。卡尔纳普运用逻辑形式和科学统一的方式,阐述并捍卫一种全新的客观性观念,来解决科学知识的客观性问题,避免传统经验主义解读中存在的问题。这种解读在文本上和历史上都极具启发性意义,在促进对卡尔纳普早期科学哲学思想深入理解的同时还有助于维也纳学派和逻辑实证主义形象的重新形塑,丰富和完善逻辑实证主义的哲学图景,进一步理解和把握科学哲学当前的境遇,助推科学哲学的发展。

     

    Abstract: In "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", Quine positions Carnap's project in Der logische Aufbau der Welt squarely in the empiricist tradition, and seeks its philosophical point by means of Russell's external world program. Since the 1967 publication of the English translation of the Aufbau, Quine's interpretation has given rise to many problems, i.e. the puzzling construction of the experiential objects and the optional nature of the form of the epistemic system. Among these philosophers, the general trend is toward recognizing the influence of broadly Kantian views on Carnap. According to neo-Kantian reading, the Aufbau's center of gravity lies in the construction theory rather than the epistemic system, and the goal of construction theory is to account for the formal or structural characterization of all scientific concepts through a unified system of purely structural definite descriptions. Carnap uses the notions of logical form and the unity of science to solve the problem of the objectivity of scientific knowledge, in order to articulate and defend a radically conception of objectivity, and avoid the problems in Quine's reading. Taking both interpretations into account, it is more desirable that a balance be striked between the reductionism and structuralism in its articulation of Carnap's project.

     

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