南希·卡特赖特的自然主义路径探析

Exploration of Nancy Cartwright’s Approaching Naturalism

南希·卡特赖特对科学理论进行了实践性的阐发,其科学哲学彰显着自然主义的路径。她反对基础主义的科学观,支持局部实在论;主张科学模型是沟通科学理论和无序世界的中介,从而使科学理论具体化;更提倡运用律则机器与能力实践科学,为科学规律的形成和使用提供条件。

Nancy Cartwright＇s scientific philosophy displays a way to naturalism. She opposes the scientific concept on foundationalism but supports a theory of local realism. She holds that the scientific model constitutes a medium for scientific theories and the disorderly world, thus making scientific theories concrete, and she also advocates utilizing the nomologieal machine and capacity science, thus providing the conditions under which scientific laws are formed and used.