Philosophy of science attempts to describe all parts of the scientific process in a general way in order to facilitate the description, execution and improvements of this process. So far, all proposed philosophies have only covered existing processes and disciplines partially and imperfectly. In particular logical approaches have always received a lot of attention due to attempts to fundamentally address issues with the definition of science as a discipline with reductionist theories. We propose a new way to approach the problem from the perspective of computational complexity and argue why this approach may be better than previous propositions based on pure logic and mathematics.
翻译:科学哲学试图笼统地描述科学过程的各个部分,以便便于描述、执行和改进这一过程。到目前为止,所有拟议的哲学理论都只部分和不完美地涵盖了现有的过程和学科。特别是逻辑方法,由于试图从根本上解决科学被定义为减少主义理论的学科的问题,因此总是受到极大的关注。我们提出了一种新的方法,从计算复杂性的角度来处理这一问题,并争论为什么这一方法可能比以前基于纯粹逻辑和数学的主张更好。