Scientific progress: normative, but aimless

Finnur Dellsén
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Does science have any aim(s)? If not, does it follow that the debate about scientific progress is somehow misguided or problematically non-objective? These are two of the central questions posed in Rowbottom’s Scientific Progress. In this paper, I argue that we should answer both questions in the negative. Science probably has no aims, certainly not a single aim; but it does not follow from this that the debate about scientific progress is somehow misguided or problematically non-objective.

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科学进步:规范,但无目的
科学有没有目标?如果没有,那么关于科学进步的讨论是否就存在某种误导或不客观的问题?这是罗伯托姆《科学进步》一书中提出的两个核心问题。在本文中,我认为我们应该对这两个问题做出否定的回答。科学可能没有目标,当然也没有单一的目标;但这并不意味着关于科学进步的辩论在某种程度上被误导或存在非客观的问题。
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