| This paper uses the data of the overall thinking and the phenomenon of correlative thinking to think about the development of Chinese philosophy of science and technology. Under the guidance of big data analysis methods, scientific metrology and the theory of mapping knowledge domains, utilizing text mining and information visualization technology and taking all the literature data of Chinese science and technology philosophy since 1956 and the periodical literature of foreign science and technology philosophy as the sample, this paper conducted a comprehensive research which analyzes the internal motivation of Chinese science and technology philosophy and discusses the development trend of future disciplines on the subject foundation,subject structure, knowledge flow of subject, scientific research cooperation and other knowledge units of Chinese science and technology philosophy from macro, meso and microcosm with the comprehensive application of tools including CiteSpace,VOSviewer and NetDraw. At the same time, this paper put forward a useful reference for the development of Chinese philosophy of science through the comparative study of foreign philosophy of science and technology. The specific research contents and conclusions are as follows:(1) This paper studies subject development status including the output and distribution, the status of prolific authors, research institutions, and fund projects of Chinese philosophy of science and technology. The study found that there is a serious regional inequality in the level of development of Chinese philosophy of science and technology, the development status of Chinese philosophy of science and technology of eastern region is far more than the central and western regions. As for the research team, academic shrinking intensified trend and an embarrassing situation that the Chinese science and technology philosophy research team is facing with the leaving of many older scholars, the retirement of middle-aged scholars and the serious fault of young scholars reflect the need of Chinese philosophy of science and technology in personnel training, connotation construction and other policy adjustments. The main force of China's science and technology philosophy research institutions concentrate in colleges and universities, and the most active colleges and universities are concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Shanxi and other places. Literature output of high-yield institutions are generally in line with the "Pareto's law". China's important funds such as the National Social Science Fund funding for science and technology philosophy is relatively small. There is a serious imbalance between the east and west of China,"Matthew effect" is also existing. Young people have less opportunities to receive funding.(2) The basic structure of the subject, research topic and evolution and development of the subject hotspot of Chinese philosophy of science and technology are revealed intuitively with the use of visual mapping knowledge domains. The study shows that Chinese philosophy of science and technology has developed nearly 40 years since 1979, and the philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, ecological philosophy, science and technology studies, natural philosophy have been the five branches of Chinese philosophy of science and technology. In addition, other fields which are the important branches of Chinese philosophy of science and technology including information philosophy, mathematical philosophy, history of science,biological philosophy, engineering philosophy, leisure philosophy and science and technology policy are relatively active. After studying the topic selection of postgraduates, it is found that the topic selection of postgraduate dissertation is influenced greatly by the reality and partly following suit. The topic selection of doctoral thesis emphasizes the internal logic and research direction of the subject, and basic research is more than applied research. About selection of specific topic,innovation is the most studied topic in the past ten years which is consistent with the realistic demand of China. It also reflects the trend of close combination of Chinese philosophy of science and technology and social reality. But there are still a few papers that the topic selection is a far cry from the requirement of the subject reflecting that the postgraduate training system needs to be further improved. The main topics of journal literature research include philosophical problems, modern science, philosophy of technology, dialectics of nature and ecological philosophy, in which ecological philosophy is the most popular topic in recent years.(3) Based on the basic theory of citation analysis, the author deeply analyzes the three intellectual units including academic community, knowledge flow of literature and knowledge penetration of periodical of Chinese science and technology philosophy with the main analytical method of the literature co-citation. The research results show that there are five academic communities based on the author co-citation, which represent the community of natural dialectics classical scholar, the community of foreign classic scientific philosophers, the community of technological philosophers,the community of science and technology and the community of scientific and technological history. There are five main academic communities based on the author's coupling. The main areas involved are technical philosophy, engineering philosophy,science, sociology of scientific knowledge, science history, policy of science and technology, contextual philosophy, scientific sociology, interdisciplinary research,green Philosophy and so on. From the perspective of knowledge flow of literature, since 1998 the frontier areas of Chinese science and technology philosophy have experienced five stages including philosophy of science, philosophy of nature (ecology), philosophy of information, technological innovation, scientific sociology; philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, philosophy of nature (ecology), creation and innovation, scientific spirit; cognitive science, philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, natural dialectics, academic corruption; philosophy of technology,philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, ecological philosophy, science of science and technology spirit. As far as the development trend, philosophy of science and technology, ecological philosophy and science of science and technology is the main frontier of Chinese philosophy of science and technology. The evolution of the hot field of Chinese and foreign philosophy of science and technology has shown that the localized research school of Chinese philosophy of science and technology does not have enough influence. Some research topics are shorter in research period than foreign philosophy of science and technology, which is not conducive to the formation of influential schools of thought. In terms of journal knowledge penetration, Chinese philosophy of science and technology continue to strengthen exchanges with foreign counterparts, but it will take a long time to work for international discourse power in the international community have the right to speak also work.(4) Through the social network analysis method, this paper reveals the structure and evolution process of the collaboration network of Chinese science and technology philosophy dynamically and studies the problem and development trend of the scientific research collaboration network of scientific and technological philosophy. This chapter starts from the co-authorship and institution cooperation and makes a study on the situation of scientific research cooperation of Chinese philosophy of science and technology by using the coexistence of the author and the institution. On the whole, the co-author rate of Chinese philosophy of science and technology has been generally low since 1956. Teacher-student cooperation is the main form of scientific research cooperation of Chinese philosophy of science and technology. In the area of institution cooperation, the mobility of personnel, the expansion of teacher-student relationship and scientific research cooperation are the main form of institutional cooperation and the first two account for the majority. And substantial scientific research cooperation is still small. Under the circumstance of the subject shrinking nowadays, carrying out interagency cooperation is extremely important. It helps the two sides in the cooperation to develop deep-level cooperation by mentor sharing, talent sharing, student co-cultivation, channel interoperability and subject co-construction, learn from each other,and develop and grow the advantageous characteristic subject.Finally, the paper summarizes the whole paper and prospects the shortcomings and follow-up work. |
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