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Treatise on Basic Philosophy TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY Volume 7 EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY III: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY S EMAT I C S I Sense and Reference 2 SEMATICS II Interpretation and Truth 3 ONTOLOGY I The Furniture of the World 4 ONTOLOGY II A World of Systems 5 EPISTEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY I Exploring the World 6 EPI STEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY II Understanding the World 7 EPISTEMOLOGY & MET HOD 0 LOG Y II I Philosophy of Science & Technology 8 E T HI C S The Good and the Right MARIO BUNGE Treatise on Basic Philosophy VOLUME 7 Epistemology & Methodology III: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART II LIFE SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY A MEMBER OF THE KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP DORDRECHT/BOSTON/LANCASTER Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bunge, Mario Augusto. Philosophy of science and technology. (Epistemology & methodology; 3) (Treatise on basic philosophy; v. 7) Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. Contents: pI. 1. Formal and physical sciences - pI. 2. Life science, social science. and technology. I. Science-Philosophy. 2. Technology-Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series: Bunge, Mario Augusto. Epistemology & methodology; 3. III. Series: Bunge, Mario Augusto. Treatise on basic philosophy; v. 7. BDI61.B86 1983 no. 3 [Q175J 121 [121] 85-2431 ISBN 90-277-1913-6 (pI. 2) ISBN 90-277-1903-9 (pI. I) ISBN 90-277-1914-4 (pbk.: pI. 2) ISBN 90-277-1904-7 (pbk.: pt. I) Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17. 3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers 190 Old Derby Street. Hingham. MA 02043, U.S.A. In all other countries. sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322 , 3300 AH Dordrecht, Holland. All Rights Reserved cD 1985 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 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 ISBN-13:978-94-01O-8835-0 e-ISBN-13:978-94-009-5287-4 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-5287-4 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1985 GENERAL PREFACE TO THE TREATISE This volume is part of a comprehensive Treatise on Basic Philosophy. The treatise encompasses what the author takes to be the nucleus of contempo­ rary philosophy, namely semantics (theories of meaning and truth), episte­ mology (theories of knowledge), metaphysics (general theories of the world), and ethics (theories of value and right action). Social philosophy, political philosophy, legal philosophy, the philosophy of education, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion and other branches of philosophy have been excluded from the above quadrivium either because they have been absorbed by the sciences of man or because they may be regarded as applications of both fundamental philosophy and logic. Nor has logic been included in the Treatise although it is as much a part of philo­ sophy as it is of mathematics. The reason for this exclusion is that logic has become a subject so technical that only mathematicians can hope to make original contributions to it. We have just borrowed whatever logic we use. The philosophy expounded in the Treatise is systematic and, to some extent, also exact and scientific. That is, the philosophical theories formu­ lated in these volumes are (a) formulated in certain exact (mathematical) languages and (b) hoped to be consistent with contemporary science. Now a word of apology for attempting to build a system of basic philo­ sophy. As we are supposed to live in the age of analysis, it may well be wondered whether there is any room left, except in the cemeteries of ideas, for philosophical syntheses. The author's opinion is that analysis, though necessary, is insufficient - except of course for destruction. The ultimate goal of theoretical research, be it in philosophy, science, or mathematics, is the construction of systems, i.e. theories. Moreover these theories should be articulated into systems rather than being disjoint, let alone mutually at odds. Once we have got a system we may proceed to taking it apart. First the tree, then the sawdust. And having attained the sawdust stage we should move on to the next, namely the building of further systems. And this for three reasons: because the world itself is systemic, because no idea can become fully clear unless it is embedded in some system or other, and because sawdust philosophy is rather boring. v VI GENERAL PREFACE TO THE TREATISE The author dedicates this work to his philosophy teacher Kanenas T. Pot a in gratitude for his advice: "Do your own thing. Your reward will be doing it, your punishment having done it". CONTENTS OF EPISTEMOLOGY III PART II GENERAL PREFACE TO THE TREATISE v PREFACE TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi 3. LIFE SCIENCE: FROM BIOLOGY TO PSYCHOLOGY 1 1. Life and its Study 4 1.1. Life 4 1.2. Biology II 2. Two Classics 16 2.1. Teleology 16 2.2. Systematics 25 3. Two Modems 32 3.1. Genetics 32 3.2. Evolution 40 4. Brain and Mind 53 4.1. Neuroscience 53 4.2. Neuropsychology 59 5. Strife Over Mind 65 5.1. Alternative Approaches 65 5.2. Types of Psychological Explanation 80 6. From Biology to Sociology 95 6.1 . Social Psychology 95 6.2. Sociobiology \0 I 7. Concluding Remarks 105 4. SOCIAL SCIENCE: FROM ANTHROPOLOGY TO HISTORY 108 1. Society and its Study 110 1.1 Society I \0 1.2 Social Science I I7 2. Anthropology 131 2.1 The Basic Social Science 131 2.2 Explanation in Anthropology 136 3. Linguistics 139 3.1 Language 139 3.2 Linguistics 146 VlII CHAPTER 3 4. Sociology and Politology 154 4.1 Sociology 154 4.2 Politology 165 5. Economics 178 5.1 Referents and Regularities 178 5.2 Theory and Reality 185 6. History 193 6.1 The Strands and Driving Forces of History 193 6.2 The Historian's Craft 20 I 7. Concluding Remarks 214 5. TECHNOLOGY: FROM ENGINEERING TO DECISION THEORY 219 1. Generalities 219 1.1 Artifact 222 1.2 Technology 231 2. Classical Technologies 241 2.1 Engineering 241 2.2 Technologies of Life and Mind 246 3. Information Technology 260 3.1 The Information Revolution 260 3.2 Artificial Intelligence 267 4. Sociotechnology 274 4.1 Management Science 274 4.2 Social Engineering 286 5. General Technology 300 5.1 Systems Theory 300 5.2 Decision Theory 303 6. Technology in Society 307 6.1 The Social Matrix 307 6.2 Values and Morals 309 7. Concluding Remarks 311 BIBLIOGRAPHY 313 INDEX OF NAMES 330 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 337 PREFACE TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY This is a systematic study in the philosophy of science and technology, or PS & T for short. It struggles with some of the so-called Big Questions in and about contemporary S & T, i.e. questions supposed to be general, deep, hard, and still sub judice. Here is a random sample of such problematics. Is verbal psychotherapy scientific? Is political economy ideologically neu­ tral? Are computers creative? What is the ontological status of machines? Is engineering just an application of basic science? What is language? Are there laws of history? Which are the driving forces of history? Which is the most fruitful approach to the study of mind? Are genes omnipotent? Are species collections or concrete systems? Do the earth sciences have laws of their own ? Is chemistry nothing but a chapter of physics? Does contem­ porary cosmology confirm theology? Has the quantum theory refuted scientific realism? Is there a viable philosophy of mathematics? How are we to choose among alternative logics? What is the ontological status of con­ cepts? These and other questions of interest to philosophy, as well as to science or technology, are tackled in this book from a viewpoint that is somewhat different from the dominant PS & T. An instant history of our discipline should help place our viewpoint. Modem PS & T began together with modem science and it was cultivated by scientists and philosophers until it became professionalized in the 1920s. At this time it took a logical tum: it was equated with the logical analysis and orderly reconstruction of scientific theories. Experimental and field work were deemed to be ancillary to theorizing, and technology was praised or deprecated, but hardly analyzed. Later on PS & T took a linguistic tum: only the languages of S & T seemed to matter. Facts, problems, theories, experiments, methods, designs and plans were overlooked. More recently, PS & T took a historical tum: everything was seen from a historical viewpoint. The logic, semantics, epistemology, ontology and ethics of S & T were declared subservient to its history or even irrelevant. Even more recently there have been attempts to force PS & T to take a sociological tum. Facts are said to be the creation of researchers, who would act only in response to social stimuli or inhibitors; there would be neither norms nor objective truth. ix X PREFACE TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I believe the time has come for PS & T to take, or rather retake, a philosophical turn : to investigate the logical and semantic ai, epistemological and ontological, axiological and ethical problems raised by contemporary S & T, leaving the sociological and historical studies to social scientists. The time has also come to approach the problematics of PS & T in a scientific fashion, by paying close attention to current developments in S & T and checking philosophical hypotheses against the findings of S & T.
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