Basic Contents and Contributions of Hacking’s Experimental Realism

Xintong JU, Yuhui YANG

Abstract


Based on the debate between scientific realism and anti-scientific realism and philosophy of science is too theoretical, Hacking put forward experimental realism. Experimental realism illustrates the importance of experiments in science, and put forward its four basic propositions: (a) Experiment is the basis of science. (b) The experiment entity operable. (c) The content of experiment is operating experimental entity. (d) Experiment entity causal attributes the fundamental basis of experimental research. “The experiment has its own life” is a special proposition and its connotation is: (a) Experimental entity is independent of the specific theoretical certainty and stability. (b) The experiment system has its own independent status and structure. (c) Laboratory activity and result are decided by its own true nature. Experimental realism resolved the conflict between scientific realism and anti-scientific realism, broke the theorical tradition, understood the relation between the experiment and theory, and promoted the development of scientific practice philosophy.


Keywords


Hacking; Experimental Realism; Basic Content; Experiment; Contribution

Full Text:

PDF

References


Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and intervening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hacking, I. (1992). The self-vindication of the laboratory science. In A. Pickering (Ed.), Science as practive and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hacking, I. (2010). Representing and Intervening. In W. Wang & Q. Meng (Trans.). Beijing: Science Press.

Lin, D. H. (2004). History of scientific ideas (version 2). Nanjing: Jiangsu Science and Technology Press.

Smith, W. H. N. (2006). A companion to the philosophy of science. In S. M. Cheng & J. Yin (Trans.). Shanghai, China: Shanghai Technology and Education Publishing House.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2016 Higher Education of Social Science



Share us to:   

Reminder

  • How to do online submission to another Journal?
  • If you have already registered in Journal A, then how can you submit another article to Journal B? It takes two steps to make it happen:

1. Register yourself in Journal B as an Author

  • Find the journal you want to submit to in CATEGORIES, click on “VIEW JOURNAL”, “Online Submissions”, “GO TO LOGIN” and “Edit My Profile”. Check “Author” on the “Edit Profile” page, then “Save”.

2. Submission

  • Go to “User Home”, and click on “Author” under the name of Journal B. You may start a New Submission by clicking on “CLICK HERE”.


We only use three mailboxes as follows to deal with issues about paper acceptance, payment and submission of electronic versions of our journals to databases:
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

 Articles published in Higher Education of Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

HIGHER EDUCATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Editorial Office

Address: 1055 Rue Lucien-L'Allier, Unit #772, Montreal, QC H3G 3C4, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Copyright © 2010 Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures