Putnam's "Internal Realism" And Its Implications For Thinking Of Scientific Realism

The realism thought is one of UK-US philosophy for main ideological trends. Looking from the philosophy history, different kinds of positivism, empiricism, the pragmatism have inseparable contacting with the realism thought. The science activity's production and the progress comes under the influence from the realism thought. Therefore,the research of realism,especially the scientific realism, has the very vital significance to the science development and the human thought's sublimation.Many philosophers and the scientists have participated in the scientific realism thought discussion,and have proposed some new subversion tradition's viewpoint, wideing humanity's understanding field of vision. Putnam as one of most important scientific philosophers in modern Europe and America, proposed"internal realism"thought, having huge promoter action to the research of the entire scientific realism thought. the thought of Putnam has been divide into three stages: the Traditional scientific realism time,"the Internal realism"time,the Natural realism time.Therefore,to the research of Putnam's thought not only may make us understand the new scientific realism thought, but also may grasp the the thought vein of the entire scientific realism and has the very significant significance to the later scientific realism's research.Putnam's"internal realism"is one of the most important scientific philosophic thinking systems for Europe and America. Looking over his thought,his thought has the obvious difference between the earlier period and the later period. In earlier period,he is the same with most people, basically belongs to the traditional metaphysics realism. He thinks that the mature scientific theory is uses for describing the truth outside the world. We need fixed claiming for the use in the theory terminology. With in counter-scientific realism controversy, he discovered that his theory had the confusing difficulty, for example, he simply makes the theory terminology corresponds the concept and the fact, and take this understanding method as practice premise. But the innumerable facts were proven, the people are unable to judge whether to tally between the theory and the objective reality. From this, He has absorbed other scientific philosopher's thought, and make own scientific philosophy change the"internal realism". He helps himself changing the theory's key point about emphasizing the correspondence between theory terminology and the reality and turn to the attention to the theory's internal logic and the dependence from the truth and main body. The statement of Putnam"internal realism",has counter-attacked the counter-scientific realism's attack powerfully,meanwhile,he has carried on the theory defense to the scientific realism and has maintained the research significance of scientific realism thought. Putnam founded a new cognition path by the brand-new angle of view,having laid the epistemology foundation for later scientific realism thought's development. And introduce pragmatism and naturalism thought by one kind of new pattern. He enriched the research technique of the scientific realism, making us progress unceasingly for grasping the logic clue of the scientific realism on the path, exploring the new cognition pattern.Through the study of Putnam's"Internal Realism", we can see that the study of scientific realism will be more open and more in-depth in futuer. A system dominated has ended by a theory. Establishment and maintenance of a system needs a variety of theories to support in different areas. Philosophers do not eliminate scientific realism and scientific rationality,we should construct a new theoretical foundation,the meaning and value system,and rethink the history of science and the scientific philosopher's main theory for making the science and rationality adapt to both theoretical and practical support for the development. Today, Prevalenting in the post-modern Culture,all kinds of ideas impacted on people's minds,and anti-science seriously threatened the survival of science. The study for Scientific Realism protected the banner of scientific theory. Although it has the trend of its one-sided internalization and naturalism,what need to rethink,what to study for the Scientific Realism and pursuit of scientific rationality, is still a very noble cause. Because, not only the science needs, we humans also need to find their new base for the impact of the various cultures today. In this regard, Putnam laid a very good foundation for us.