格森事件与科学学起源

"Hessen Episode" and the Origin of the Science of Science

半个世纪前,苏联物理学家格森向国际第二届科学史大会(1931年,伦敦)递交了一篇题为《牛顿力学的社会经济根源》的论文。文章对科学与社会、经济关系的马克思主义辩证分析,对西方科学家,尤其是英国科学家,产生了没有预想到的重要震动。这就形成了史称的“格森事件”(HessenEpisode)。“格森事件”是马克思主义同自然科学相结合的产物。同时亦是科学学产生的重要历史原因。研究“格森事件”,可以提供马克思主义与科学技术结合的许多历史经验和教训。

Professor B. M.Hessen, Soviet physicist,read his famous paper entitled on The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's'Principia' at the Second International Congress on the History of Science in London in 1931. Its dialectical analysis of the relationships between science and social economy delt a hard blow at the west scientists, especially British scientists. It is socalled'Hessen Episode' in the history.The'Hessen Episode', undoubtedly, was an outcome of combination of Marxism with natural science. Meantime it was an important historical reason of emerging of the science of science as times required. Thus, to study the'Hessen Episode' could provide much historical experiences and lessons on combination of Marxism with modern science and technology.