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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Editor ROBERTS. COHEN,Boston University EditorialAdvisoryBoard mOMAS F. GLICK,Boston University ADOLFGRUNBAUM, University ofPittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHNJ. STACHEL, Boston University MARXW. WARTOFSKY, BaruchCollegeof the City University ofNew York VOLUME 169 REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Tscha Hung with C. G. Hempel. Vienna 1982. REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Beijing International Conference, 1992 Edited by ROBERT S. COHEN Boston University RISTO HILPINEN University of Turku and University ofMiami and QIU RENZONG Institute ofPhilosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences .... Springer-Science+Business" Media, B.Y. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of seienee Bet j Inq International Conferenee. 1992 I edited by Robert S. Cohen . Risto Hilpinen. Oiu Renzong . p. em. -- (Boston studies in the philosophy of seienee ; v. 169) "Be i j ing International Conferenee on Philosophy of Seienee"--Pref . p , 10. Ine 1udes index . 1. Realism--Congresses. 2 . Seienee--Philosophy--Congresses. 1. Cuhan , R. S. (Robar t Sonne) I!. H t lp men , Risto . II1. Ch' tu , Jen-tsung. IV. Beijing International Conferenee on Philosophy of Seienee (1992) V. Series. 0175. 32. R42R43 1995 501- -de20 94-39752 ISBN 978-90-481-4493-8 ISBN 978-94-015-8638-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8638-2 Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 1996 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1996. Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1996 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ~ ROBERT S. COHEN / Recollections of Tscha Hung xiii FAN DAINIAN / Hong Qian (Tscha Hung) and the Vienna Circle xvii PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS RISTO HILPINEN / On Some Formulations of Realism, or How Many Objects Are There in the World? RUDOLPH KREJCI/Dissolution of the Realism/Antirealism Problem 11 ALAN MUSGRAVE / Realism, Truth and Objectivity 19 ILKKA NIINILUOTO / Queries about Internal Realism 45 QIU RENZONG / How to Know What Rises Up Is the Moon? - On the Concept of Realism and the Irrelevancy of Quantum Mechanics to the Debate on Realism vs. Antirealism 55 DEMETRA SFENDONI-MENTZOU / The Reality of Thirdness -A Potential-Pragmatic Account of Laws of Nature 75 ARCHIE J. BAHM / Tentative Realism 97 F. WALLNER AND M. F. PESCHLI Cognitive Science - An Experiment in Constructive Realism; Constructive Realism - An Experiment in Cognitive Science 103 REALISM AND GENERAL METHODOLOGY JAMES ROBERT BROWN / Phenomena 117 ALLAN FRANKLIN / There Are No Antirealists in the Laboratory 131 KOSTAS GAVROGLU / Can Theories of Chemistry Provide an Argument Against Realism? 149 MATTHIAS KAISER / Empirical Versus Theoretical Progress in Science 171 VB viii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHIN-TAl KIM / Science as Ideology 195 MARX W. WARTOFSKY / Three Stages of Constitution: Historical Changes in the Ontological Status of the Scientific Object 207 JOHN WATKINS / Scientific Realism versus Common-Sense Realism? 219 JOHN WRIGHT / Metaphysical Realism and the Explanation of the Success of Science 227 WU QIONGBING / Is Natural Science Free from Morality? 245 YIN ZHENGKUN / Truth and Fiction in Scientific Theory 265 PHYSICAL SCIENCES FAN DAINIAN / Niels Bohr and Realism 279 HENRY 1. FOLSE / The Bohr-Einstein Debate and the Philosophers' Debate over Realism versus Anti-Realism 289 HE ZUOXIU / On the Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen Paradox and the Relevant Philosophical Problems 299 HONG DINGGUO / On the Neutral Status of QM in the Dispute of Realism vs. Anti-Realism 307 lIN WULUN / Double Structure of Tao Reality 317 LARS -GORAN JOHANSSON / Realism and Wave-Particle ~~~ 3~ LARS -GORAN JOHANSSON / Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricism -A Critique 339 LI LI / On Complementarity Reality 343 LUO lIACHANG AND HU XINHE / Relational Realism on Reform of the View of Physical Reality and Its Logical Manifestation 359 MAO SHIYING / A Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 381 MORTON L. SCHAGRIN / Rumford's Experiments on the Materiality of Light - More Heat Than Light 395 RICHARD H. SCHLAGEL / Resolving the Realist-Antirealist Dilemma 405 ZHOU 11 HONG / The Mathematicized Practical Attitude 419 TABLE OF CONTENTS ix SOCIAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES USKALI MAKI / Scientific Realism and Some Peculiarities of Economics 427 TIMOTHY SHANAHAN / Realism and Antirealism in Evolutionary Biology 449 PAUL C. L. TANG AND RALPH W. BROWN III/Anti-Realism and the Complementarity Model of Mind-Brain 467 Name Index 481 PREFACE This book contains the main papers from the first Beijing International Conference on Philosophy of Science, held in 1992 and dedicated to issues of 'Realism and Anti-Realism in Science'. The Conference was organized by the Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature (Philosophy of Nature, Science and Technology), and sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the China International Conference Center for Science and Technology (ICCST), the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science, the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science through its Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (IUHPSIDLMPS), and by Mr. Joseph C. T. Lee of Hong Kong. The Organizing Committee was chaired by Qiu Liang-hui, the Programme Committee by Robert S. Cohen, but we are especially mindful of the responsible role of our real 'Secretary-General' Qiu Renzong and his endlessly helpful colleague Ju Zhang . The Conference was blessed by the late Professor Tscha Hung who had hoped to join with us, with Chinese and non-Chinese alike. He had for many years been Director of the Institute for Foreign Philosophy at Beijing University, and indeed for decades of thinking and teaching Tscha Hung was a link between the 'scientific philosophy' of his logical empiri­ cist Vienna and the new time of China after the Second World War. Both the teacher and also the critic of his own mentors and colleagues, he was a scholar who quietly carried the roles of being the Ayer and Hempel of China. Where might philosophy of science within China be located today? As in the West, modern Chinese philosophers deal with issues in addition to those of science, technology, medicine and the natural world , and they do so within various frameworks, some from traditional Chinese civilization, some from the currents of classical, modern and post-modern Western sources, others within a Chinese Marxist outlook. Philosophy of science however is especially needful of, and open to, international collaboration and mutual learning . Like the sciences, like mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, modern logic, nuclear Xl R. S. Cohen . R. Hilpin en and Qiu Renzon g (eds.), Realism and Anti-Reali sm in the Philosophy of Science, xi-xii. xii PREFACE engineering, like Western medicine and surgery, so philosophy of the sciences should be a field of international cooperation. This Conference was a contribution to the extension of such cooperation in philoso­ phical clarification of the currently living concerns about science, among scientists as well as philosophers. The renaissance of this endeavor in the People's Republic was evident at this conference, among younger and elder scholars from every part of China. The restrictions imposed by dogmatic habits or doctrines, so hurtful to the honest progress of science and certainly of its philoso­ phical understanding, are hopefully behind our times (however diffi­ cult it may beto befreed from habit and its rituals). Even that contentious phrase from old Engels, adapted from Hegel, the 'dialectics of Nature', may be seen to be a suggestive problematic for scientific theorists, or perhaps as heuristic for philosophy of nature and of science-in-society. And within science, 'materialism' may be realist, objectivist, but not thereby opposed to theoretically conceived entities or forces or whatever the scientific imagination may conjure forth . So, 'realism', whether another 'neo-materialism' or not, is an epistemological issue, an onto­ logical puzzle, and even a target for the pragmatic 'realist' of a different sort. Is there a new 'i dealism' within the social constructivist interpre­ tations of today, even within the cultural anti-science which has arisen? Our Conference dealt with such matters, perhaps without sufficiently vigorous exposition of the case for anti-realism but the reader will judge. I am reminded of a contrast drawn by the British philosopher Winston Barnes many years ago. Barnes said that the idealist holds that "There is a Mind with a world in it", while the materialist holds that "there is a world with minds in it". Now we have many-world theories, and non-reductive emergent realisms, and non-ontological non-idealist anti­ realisms. The issues were before this gathering of speakers and partici­ pants, and revised for this book. What would our friend Tscha Hung have thought? Robert S. Cohen (for the editors) ROBERT S. COHEN RECOLLECTIONS OF TSCHA HUNG I first learned of Tscha Hung in 1955 during conversation with Marie Neurath. Ten years earlier, on the last day of Otto Neurath's life, Tscha Hung had come to Otto at his home in Oxford, to talk once
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