ABSTRACT
The wealth of scientific practice is an important foundation and basic pre-condition for further development of the philosophy of science. Lack of understanding and research of direct scientific practice may be the bottleneck that restricts philosophy of scientific practice’s (PSP) development. The metaphysical foundations of PSP are local, pluralistic, and pragmatic so that PSP can assimilate much from other philosophical resources. There are many ideological resources available, such as advances in New-experimentalism in philosophy of science, other philosophers’ research that are in New-empiricist philosophy of science, views of New-pragmatism, and the progress in Checkland’s methodology of soft system. Differences not only exist within the New-experimentalism, but also among the surface of PSP and the New-experimentalism. On the normativity of philosophy of science, Joseph Rouse’s notion of normativity is one of the attributes of practice. Studies on the relationship between New-experimentalism and New-empiricism, and the one between PSP and its contents, are an important part of improving the research on PSP.
