超越力学哲学

• 作 者: Hanbury Brown 李醒民
• 机 构: 澳大利亚悉尼大学 物理学(天文学)教授
• 出 处: 世界科学
• 发表日期: 2004年期
• 关键词: 物理科学 哲学解释 现代科学 牛顿定律 还原论 广义相对论 物理世界 中所 新大西岛 弗兰西斯·培根

超越力学哲学有人以轻蔑的口吻告诉我们,科学是“力学的”或“机械论的”。这一传统的观点忘记了一个事实,即许多现代科学,尤其是物理学,现在远非是几百年前那种机械论的样子了。在物理科学的“哲学”中所发生的深刻变革应该受到更为广泛的评价,现在人们显然是低估了它们的价值,这不是别的原因,而是因为它们向我们提供了更充分地在科学和我们文化的其他分支例如宗教和艺术——之间发展关系的机会。

Beyond the mechanics philosophy Some people tell us contemptuously that science is “mechanical” or “mechanical”. This traditional view has forgotten the fact that many modern sciences, especially physics, are far from the mechanistic aspects of what they were hundreds of years ago. The profound changes that have taken place in the “philosophy” of physical science deserve broader appraisal, and now it is clear that people underestimate their value, not because of anything else, but because they provide us with a fuller understanding of science And other branches of our culture such as religion and the arts.