关于弦论的哲学分析

Philosophical Analysis About String Theory

弦论属于当前粒子物理学的研究前沿。在理论建构上,它内含了许多非传统的特性,这些特性使它切入到科学哲学形而上的核心争论之中。本文将系统考究弦论所牵涉的经验可证实性、理论唯一性、亚决定性原理、科学实在论、科学隐喻和科学统一等哲学问题,并给出相应的哲学分析。

String theory is a hot topic of contemporary particle physics. A lot of nontraditional properties have been presented in the construction of string theory, and these properties make string theory penetrate into the main metaphysical debates about philosophy of science. The paper will not only investigate the implications of string theory for the conceptions of empirical testability,theoretical uniqueness, scientific underdetermination, scientific realism, scientific metaphor, scientific unification program, but also give some philosophical reviews for the implications.