Chinese Debate over Science and Metaphysics—The Rise of the Philosophy of Science in China
The outbreak of the Science-Metaphysics Debate in 1923 is a hallmark of the rise of philosophy of science in China.The basic questions in analytical philosophy of science,such as the demarcation of science,the relationship between science and philosophy,the nature of scientific knowledge,the elements of scientific method,the logic of confirmation and explanation,the relations of science to intellectual activities at large and so on,have been systematically answered by Chinese philosophers over the span of the debate.The philosophy of science arose in China contemporarily with Europe but colored with Chinese characteristics.The development of newly structured colleges and industries was the fertile ground on which Chinese philosophy of science was planted;Chinese philosophers of science rejected speculative metaphysics but not metaphysics in general and they explained science in terms of scientific method;scientific methodologists,Marxists and pragmatists became allies in the fighting against speculative metaphysics.
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