从技术思辨到社会哲学——关于虚拟世界研究的方法论转向问题

From Technical Speculative to Social Philosophy——Issue on Methodology Turning in Cyberspace Research

关于虚拟世界的哲学论争,无论其逻辑起点如何,都步入了一个技术思辨误区。实际上,虚拟技术不仅仅是一种技术工具,更重要的是它嵌入到人类生活的社会文化系统之中,带来了社会关系和人类生活方式的改变。为此,虚拟世界研究的方法论应该从技术思辨转向社会哲学,即在实证基础上对虚拟世界进行形而上的建构。从社会哲学的视野来审视虚拟世界中的一些哲学问题,是有待拓展的新领域。

No matter which level belongs to or no matter what the logical origin, the debates on cyberspace get into the mistaking area on technical speculative. In fact, virtual technology not only is a technical tool, but also has be bedded into social culture system in the human life so that it gets to change on social rehtionships and human life-style. Therefore, research on virtual world have to turn technical speculative to social philosophy. It means methodology on cyberspace research is the way of metaphysics construction based on positivism. The spiritual essence of constructivism based on positivism has two ways： from the view of epistemology, it conbines realism and constructivism and from the view of methodology, it combines practices and theories.