科学理性与自由主义

Scientific Rationality and Liberalism

哈耶克和波普尔两位自由主义者对科学理性及其与自由的关系有截然不同的看法,而量子物理的互补诠释则能表明科学内在精神与自由主义的一致性。N·玻尔以互补观点对量子力学带来的新的认识论局势作了精确而全面的说明。互补观点向广泛的认识领域的推扩,完全不同于以牛顿力学为根据引申出来的因果决定论。

Both F. A. Hayek and K. Popper are important and famous liberals in the twentieth century. Though their viewpoints about scientific rationality and its relation to freedom are quite different from each other, their complementary interpretations of quantum mechanics illustrate a kind of conforma-bility between the inner spirit of science and liberalism. Starting with a complementary view, N. Bohr makes a comprehensive and precise explanation of the new epistemological situation caused by quantum mechanics. The extension of the complementary viewpoint to other cognitive areas is completely different from the spread of causal determinism that is based on Newtonian mechanics.