Michel Foucault’s Thought On Scientific Knowledge

Michel Foucault is a contemporary influential philosopher, and also one of the most typicalpostmodernism thinkers. His research covers history, art, literature, psychological, social and otheraspects. He created the knowledge archaeology research method, and through the medical andpsychiatric history of unique investigation, this paper reveals the construction process of modernknowledge, and finally formed its unique knowledge view thoughts. This article aims to exploreFoucault thinking about the part of scientific knowledge, through scientific philosophy, science andthe contemporary sociological more representative of the philosophers and their ideas contrast, thusrevealing Foucault unique scientific knowledge view. At the same time also hope to be able to openup a new channel, make us today’s philosophy of science research and Foucault’s ideas and researchmethods produce beneficial communication. This paper is from the three aspects to complete thepurpose.The first part, mainly discussed Foucault’s early thoughts----the concept of " episteme"compared with the Kuhn’s "paradigm" concept, aims to show that, the " episteme " and "paradigm"as two thinkers of the key concepts were put forward, and answered the epistemology of essentialproblems "knowledge is how to develop", and pointed out that, although the two concepts in twophilosophers in the theory of the controversial, but the opening of the train of thoughts for later wereable to research scientific philosophy in the field of providing beneficial inspiration.The second part, mainly discusses the ideas of Foucault’s another important concept, named"power"."The power" is Foucault’s key late research problems, especially the relationship between"knowledge and power", throughout Foucault’s several important works of the general thoughts.Knowledge production power, power maintain knowledge of operation, this is the concentration ofpower relation between knowledge generalizations. This kind of relations as we look at the sciencecommunity social system to provide a new perspective and the science community as a powersystem, and engage in knowledge operation, thus deepens our understanding of the pathogenesis ofscientific knowledge. The third part, through to Foucault’s concept of space investigation, thus revealing theknowledge of the specific operation process. Although on Foucault of space has been discussed indetails, but of the many works of knowledge analysis, exactly is knowledge as a fixed place in therole of power tools. The concept of space, and then discusses the scientific knowledge in the spacethe operation process, to inspire our understanding scientific knowledge and the relationshipbetween social fields.All in all, these three parts constitute a whole.“Episteme " and "paradigm", the comparativestudies of the paper is Foucault’s intellectual development; The problem of the relationship betweenthe knowledge and power, the connection is Foucault knowledge view and science sociology sciencecommunity in the dialogue; And knowledge and space, is trying to describe in specific socialenvironment and scientific research field, the running mechanism of scientific knowledge. Thispaper discusses the three parts, roughly lays out the concept of scientific knowledge Foucault overalllook.