现代方法论的源泉:两种变化模式

The Sources of Modern Methodology:Two Models of Change

劳丹通过对一些历史实例的分析表明,以所谓"均变论者"的眼光来看待方法论史,认为科学哲学的过去与现在处于同样的若干因素影响之下,那么将无法获得对于科学哲学和方法论的历史性认识。劳丹主张,应当回到科学史、从科学思想的变化中寻求方法论和科学哲学的变化,不应当一味从哲学史和认识论史中寻找科学哲学变化的源头。方法论史并不仅仅是认识论史的一个分支。

Larry Laudan claims that to look at the history of methodology from a uniformitarian＇s point of view will lead to no historical understanding of philosophy of science.Having analyzed a number of historical cases,the writer explains that we should turn to the history of science,rather than the history of philosophy and epistemology to understand the changes in the history of philosophy of science and methodology.The history of methodology is more than a branch of the history of epistemology.