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1、RETURNTOREASONRETURNTOREASONStephenToulminHARVARDUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,MassachusettsLondon,EnglandCopyright©2001bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollegeALLRIGHTSRESERVEDPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaFirstHarvardUniversityPresspaperbackedition,2003Secondprintin
2、g,2003LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataToulmin,StephenEdelston.Returntoreason/StephenToulmin.p.cm.Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.ISBN0-674-00495-7(cloth)ISBN0-674-01235-6(paper)1.Reasoning.I.Title.BC177.T5962001128′.33—dc2100-047186ContentsPr
3、efacevii1Introduction:RationalityandCertainty12HowReasonLostItsBalance143TheInventionofDisciplines294Economics,orthePhysicsThatNeverWas475TheDreamsofRationalism676RethinkingMethod837PracticalReasonandtheClinicalArts1028EthicalTheoryandMoralPractice1239TheTroublewith
4、Disciplines13810RedressingtheBalance15511TheVarietiesofExperience17512TheWorldofWhereandWhen19013Postscript:LivingwithUncertainty204Notes215Index239PrefaceItisapleasuretorecognizethedebtIowetoIsaiahBerlin,whoun-wittinglysetmeoffontheinquiriesofwhichthisbookisabelate
5、dfruit.In1948heinvitedme—asayoungresearchfellowofKing’sCollege,Cambridge—tospendtimeatoursistercollege,NewCollege,Oxford,wherehewasthePhilosophyTutor;therehetoldmeintermsthatIneverforgotthat,forAnglo-Americanphilosophers,theHistoryofIdeaswasanon-subject.Sincethattim
6、ehehasshownthatahistoricalgraspofsocial,political,andscienti~cideasisindispensableifwearetomakesense,ei-therofModernityingeneral,orofModernPhilosophyinparticular.Isaiah’sinsightsremainedwithmeduringtheyearswhenIwasworkinginthehistoryandphilosophyofscience,andunderli
7、emyconcernsinthepresentbook.Thisworkextendsintothesocial,economic,andpracticalrealmsthecritiqueoftheorytowhichIwasledbyaWittgensteinianap-proachtothephysicalorbiologicalsciences,andbythehistoricalreinter-pretationoftheseventeenth-centuryScienti~cRevolutionthatisthec
8、oreofmybookCosmopolis.Tosumupthecentralthemesofthepresentbook,letmequotearadiotalkon“PoliticalJudgement,”whichIsaiahgavefortheBBCThirdProg
