The Impact Of Cultural Factors In The Evaluation Of Scientific Theories

Evaluation of scientific theories compete with each other in order to make a variety of theories and rational choice, in order to promote the growth of knowledge and scientific progress. Through the evaluation of professional peers and recognized by society as a whole, established scientific theory is an important sign.Evaluation of scientific theory is a scientific philosophy has always been important issues of concern. Contemporary Western philosophy of science of logical empiricism, the historical school and post-modern philosopher of science on this issue have put forward their views. The core of this issue is controversial: the evaluation of scientific theories and to choose whether or not affected by cultural factors; the existence of universal, immutable, objective evaluation criteria of scientific theories. Logical Positivism rejection of cultural factors in addition to the scientific theory of universal change of the evaluation criteria; Kuhn historical and cultural factors will be accepted, stressed the importance of cultural relativity; while post-modernism denies the fundamental scientific theory of the existence of objective criteria for evaluation. Then, in the end cultural factors in the evaluation of scientific theories, what kind of role? Scientific theory to assess the feasibility of the impact of cultural factors to leave? These issues need to explore further. Logic and science in the actual existence of complete removal of cultural factors, so that full evaluation of the scientific theory has become a closed system independent. Although the historical logic of the right to criticize the shortcomings of empiricism, science has revealed the existence of various cultural factors, but too much of these factors has exaggerated the role of science so that science into the culture of relativism. Post-modern philosophy, from a fundamental theory of the evaluation criteria to deny the existence of that "how are the" not so much for the evaluation of scientific theories of defense, not as good as it in fact a scientific theory evaluation of the eradication of topics. In short, the scientific theory of the evaluation process is a very complex process, the evaluation of scientific theories of the problem, it is clear that only committed to the form, the level of logic is not enough, but also from a cultural point of view look at their all-round.In this paper, the culture of scientific research to the theoretical background to evaluate the scientific theory from the cultural impact of factors start with the philosophy of science, scientific evaluation of scientific theories in sociology studies the impact of cultural factors in the perspective of historical research, by Cultural factors in the Darwinian theory of evolution in the role of case study analysis, pointed out that the evaluation of scientific theories can not be divorced from the study of cultural factors, we need to grasp the dialectical evaluation of the scientific theory of the role of cultural factors.