关键词: 科学知识社会学, 经验研究, 社会科学, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Empirical Study, Social Science

Abstract: Chinese social scientists have paid little attention to Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK), while the discussion of philosophy researchers on SSK often keeps aloof from the empirical studies of social sciences. This on the one hand caused SSK disjoint with other areas of sociological research, on the other hand masked its real methodological merits. From the perspective of empirical study, modern social sciences have fallen into a trap of formalism with “semantics myth” and it is SSK researchers who pointed out this illness with their keen perception. Anti-science, multiple discovery or nihilism is not an apposite criticism to SSK, and the hardship of SSK doesn’t pertain to itself, however it reflects the essential paradox in modern western epistemology.