“还原”问题及其面临的困难

The Problems of Reduction and Its Difficulties

“还原”是科学家和哲学家围绕解决世界统一性和科学统一性问题提出的,在科学发展过程中发挥过巨大的作用。文章从“还原”的提出、发展及引发的争论等相关问题说开去,然后结合复杂性科学、整体论、突现等问题对近年来“还原”的科学研究纲领进行扼要分析,尝试对“还原”的相关问题进行梳理,以理清对“还原”的争论。

“Reduction”is put forward by scientists and philosophers when they try to resolve the world unity problems and the science unity problems. It has taken great importance during the development of science. This paper first sets forth the reduction's advancing, development and debating. Then, it analyses the science research programme of reduction with complexity science,holism,emergence and so on.Try to sort out the problems of reduction and make the debating clear.