Foundations of Science

期刊简介：Foundations of Science focuses on methodological and philosophical topics of foundational significance concerning the structure and the growth of science. It serves as a forum for exchange of views and ideas among working scientists and theorists of science and it seeks to promote interdisciplinary cooperation.Since the various scientific disciplines have become so specialized and inaccessible to workers in different areas of science, one of the goals of the journal is to present the foundational issues of science in a way that is free from unnecessary technicalities yet faithful to the scientific content. The aim of the journal is not simply to identify and highlight foundational issues and problems, but to suggest constructive solutions to the problems.The editors of the journal admit that various sciences have approaches and methods that are peculiar to those individual sciences. However, they hold the view that important truths can be discovered about and by the sciences and that truths transcend cultural and political contexts. Although properly conducted historical and sociological inquiries can explain some aspects of the scientific enterprise, the editors believe that the central foundational questions of contemporary science can be posed and answered without recourse to sociological or historical methods.

【译文】科学基础关注与科学结构和增长有关的方法论和哲学问题。它为在工作的科学家和科学理论家之间交换观点和思想提供了一个论坛，并寻求促进跨学科合作。由于各个科学学科已经变得如此专业化，以至于不同科学领域的从业者难以接触，该杂志的一个目标是以一种摆脱不必要的复杂性的方式呈现科学的基础问题，同时忠实于科学内容。该杂志的目的不仅仅是识别和突出基础问题和问题，而是提出解决问题的建设性方案。该杂志的编辑承认，各种科学都有其独特的科学方法。然而，他们认为，可以通过和科学本身发现重要的真理，而且真理超越了文化和政治背景。尽管适当进行的历史和社会学调查可以解释科学事业的一些方面，但编辑们相信，当代科学的核心基础问题可以在不依赖社会学或历史方法的情况下提出和回答。