ABSTRACT

This chapter reviews how traditional philosophy of science produces a lot of relativism problems in its own development, and why they can’t be solved. It introduces how philosophy of scientific practices (PSP) establishes its own science view to avoid the relativism or make relativism no longer be a problem to traditional philosophy of science. PSP abandon the representationalism and establish the view of ‘local knowledge’, which has avoided the relativism to some extent, and has made some stands of relativism be accepted. In the philosophy of science, relativism demonstrates that there are no universal standards in some philosophical problems. Logical positivists intend to transfer philosophy into strict science and endow science with rigid logic specification, which means only after their combination can philosophy of science becomes a category of philosophy. Logical positivism shows the first common standard in philosophy of science – namely, verifiable principle.