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题目：从认知神经科学论证结构实在论
讲座人：
严伟哲 (Jonathon Hricko)
美国约翰霍普金斯大学哲学博士
台湾中央研究院欧美研究所 博士后研究员
严如玉
美国约翰霍普金斯大学哲学博士
台湾国立阳明大学助理教授
内容提要：即便是已被扬弃的科学理论，如牛顿物理学，也可以某个程度上解释我们所观察的事物，以及预测我们将会观察的事物。如果所谓「错」的科学理论仍有解释力与预测力，到底科学理论所捕捉到的是什么？结构实在论主张科学理论告诉我们的是关于世界的结构，而非世界存在什么样的实体。我们将从认知神经科学的研究来支持结构实在论。
Abstract: Our current scientific theories can explain what we observe, and predict what we will observe, to an unprecedented degree. At the same time, our previous theories have all been rejected as false, and perhaps our current theories will eventually be rejected as well. These seemingly conflicting thoughts have lead philosophers to try and distinguish between what our theories get right, and what they get wrong. Some of these philosophers claim that it is the structure of the world that our theories get right. This view is called Structural Realism. We attempt to provide some support for this view by showing a sense in which recent work in cognitive neuroscience succeeds in getting at the structure of one part of the world: the human mind/brain.
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