略论强纲领与社会学有限主义的关系

A Brief Analysis of the Relation of the Strong Program and the Sociological Finitism

有学者主张,从强纲领到社会学有限主义构成了爱丁堡学派的一次理论转向。但是,强纲领和社会学有限主义的倡导者和评论者都从未说明或暗示存在那样一个理论转向,并且强纲领和有限主义的内容从逻辑上说也不可能构成简单的竞争或替代关系。正好相反,从强纲领到社会学有限主义是爱丁堡学派理论的一次深度拓展,对这一拓展的完整论述有赖于以相对主义为中介对爱丁堡学派理论论证的合理重建。

The sociological finitism may be the most important single idea of the sociology of scientific knowledge. There is an opinion that it has made a theoretical turn from the Strong Program to the sociological finitism. This article opposes that opinion, but argues that they are coherent and can not be conflict logically. Besides, a rational reconstruction of the theoretical argument of the sociology of scientific knowledge, including epistemic relativism as a theoretical bridge, win confirm it.