2020 年 21 巻 1 号 p. 493-499
The purpose of this paper is to describe the practices of scientists who place their practices as distinct from "naturalistic" science, which assumes a sharp distinction between human beings and the Reality. The practice of these solid geophysicists, termed "fusion" in this paper, is characterized by seemingly odd concepts such as "distrust of observed data" and "a priori data." The practice of "fusion" does not create objective representations of the world, but hybrid images in which observation data and human model evaluation are mixed in its own way.
Criticism of Naturalistic Ontology and "Science as Fusion" Philippe Descola states that the ontology that defines the Modern is "naturalism" (Descola 2013: 173). There are various uses for the term naturalism, but by his terminology it is characterized by the continuity of the physical world and the discreteness of the inner world. Naturalistic ontology has developed mutually with representational epistemology of science. However, Science studies imply that modern science practices oppose such epistemology and ontology. Through various criticism, natural science is no longer a sovereign domain of modern culture to explain the Reality, and is re-interpreted as a human and nonhuman plural and heterogeneous networks. These criticisms also seems to overcome the premise of naturalistic ontology.
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