在知识与实践的互动中进步——评物理学家威尔逊对SSK的批判

TO PROGRESS IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE——Comment on Physicist Wilson's Criticism on SSK

诺贝尔物理学奖获得者威尔逊对SSK的关键性批评是它刻画科学的不充分性。SSK随意穿越知识与实践的界限,忽略科学知识各组分之间在性质、功能等方面的差异,导致SSK未能把科学理解为在知识与实践的互动中进步的事业,同时也没有恰当地处理自身的理论与实践的关系。SSK恢复了知识与人的本质关联,但也付出了沉重的理论代价。

The critical criticism on SSK made by Wilson, the Nobel laureate in physics, is its inadequate characterization about science. SSK casually passes through the boundary between knowledge and practice and neglects the qualitative and functional differences among the components of scientific knowledge so that it leads to the failure in understanding science as a progressive cause in the interaction between knowledge and practice, and at the same time dealing with the relation.ship between theory and practice properly. SSK restores the essential association between knowledge and man, but it also suffers heavy theoretical losses.