图尔明20世纪50年代初对逻辑经验主义的批评

Toulmin's Criticism of Logical Empiricism in the Early 1950s

西方科学哲学历史学派主要代表人物之一的图尔明在20世纪50年代初从维特根斯坦后期哲学出发对当时处于鼎盛的逻辑经验主义展开批评,就科学概念、科学定律和科学语言的结构以及科学理论的功能等问题提出了与当时的逻辑经验主义完全不同的看法,被认为开启了历史学派的先河。

Drawing on the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, Toulmin criticized logical empiricism at its heyday in the early 1950s. He put forth completely different conceptions about scientific concepts, laws of nature,structure of scientific language and functions of science. He is considered as a forerunner of historicist school of Western philosophy of science.