论当代科学论的经济学转向

On Economic Turn of Contemporary Science Theory

哲学家借助经济分析来应对科学相对主义和经济学家寻求扩展经济学解释范围等诸多动因,促成了当代科学论的经济学转向。科学经济学和科学知识经济学是科学论应用经济学分析工具的两种理论形式。科学知识经济学对科学知识生产和传播机制的阐述有助于削弱科学相对主义的威胁,并且对制定科学政策有重要的启发意义。

Many reasons, such as the philosopher seeking to deal with scientific relativism with the aid of the economic analysis and economist seeking to expand the scope of economic explanation, facilitate the economic turn of science theory. The economics of science and economics of scientific knowledge are two kinds of theory form of the application of economic analysis to the science theory.The elaboration to the mechanism of scientific knowledge production and dissemination in economics of scientific knowledge is being helpful to weaken the threat of scientific relativism, and has the important inspiration significance to formulate the scientific policy.