Our objectives in this paper are, first, to identify several puzzling aspects of the ＂Trilemma Argument＂ of Section 6 against the Sense Datum Theory; second, to resolve these puzzles by reconstructing the Trilemma A...Our objectives in this paper are, first, to identify several puzzling aspects of the ＂Trilemma Argument＂ of Section 6 against the Sense Datum Theory; second, to resolve these puzzles by reconstructing the Trilemma Argument; third to point to a distinction Sellars makes between two versions of the Sense Datum Theory, the ＂nominalist＂ version and the ＂realist＂ version; fourth, to reconstruct Sellars＇s arguments against both; and, finally, to fmd in an earlier paper, ＂Is There a Synthetic A Priort？＂ that his argument against the second version, assumed but not actually given in EPM, is against property realism and depends on taking language expressing propositional perception as fundamental and language expressing non-propositional perception as incomplete and derivative from the former.展开更多
According to Claude Bernard,each of the sciences investigates different natural phenomena using experimental methods unique to that science,especially experimental medicine.However,Bernard also argued that these scien...According to Claude Bernard,each of the sciences investigates different natural phenomena using experimental methods unique to that science,especially experimental medicine.However,Bernard also argued that these sciences share a“common”experimental method that depends on both the“head”and the“hand”.What he accomplished with his common method is to combine both rationalism and empiricism-head and hand,respectively-to undergird the unity of the experimental sciences while maintaining their plurality.Bernard’s experimental method as articulated in terms of the rational head and the empirical hand metaphor is relevant today to the unity of science vs.pluralism debate,as well as to the rationalism vs.empiricism debate and to the hypothesis-driven vs.data-driven science debate-each of which is explored in turn after briefly reconstructing Bernard’s philosophy of experimental medicine.And his metaphor of head and hand provides a means for examining the natural and biomedical sciences as they evolve with regard to specialization.展开更多
文摘Our objectives in this paper are, first, to identify several puzzling aspects of the ＂Trilemma Argument＂ of Section 6 against the Sense Datum Theory; second, to resolve these puzzles by reconstructing the Trilemma Argument; third to point to a distinction Sellars makes between two versions of the Sense Datum Theory, the ＂nominalist＂ version and the ＂realist＂ version; fourth, to reconstruct Sellars＇s arguments against both; and, finally, to fmd in an earlier paper, ＂Is There a Synthetic A Priort？＂ that his argument against the second version, assumed but not actually given in EPM, is against property realism and depends on taking language expressing propositional perception as fundamental and language expressing non-propositional perception as incomplete and derivative from the former.
文摘According to Claude Bernard,each of the sciences investigates different natural phenomena using experimental methods unique to that science,especially experimental medicine.However,Bernard also argued that these sciences share a“common”experimental method that depends on both the“head”and the“hand”.What he accomplished with his common method is to combine both rationalism and empiricism-head and hand,respectively-to undergird the unity of the experimental sciences while maintaining their plurality.Bernard’s experimental method as articulated in terms of the rational head and the empirical hand metaphor is relevant today to the unity of science vs.pluralism debate,as well as to the rationalism vs.empiricism debate and to the hypothesis-driven vs.data-driven science debate-each of which is explored in turn after briefly reconstructing Bernard’s philosophy of experimental medicine.And his metaphor of head and hand provides a means for examining the natural and biomedical sciences as they evolve with regard to specialization.
