Science without Representation

摘要

Galileo set the agenda for modern physical science by requiring it to explainnhow such apparent features of our world as colours, sounds, tastes and smellsnare produced by a colourless, silent, tasteless and odour-free reality. VannFraassen calls this the Appearance from Reality Criterion. He acknowledgesnour enormous advances in physics since Galileo’s day, but argues that thesenhave in the end come about by abandoning this along with other complete-nness criteria associated with necessity, determinism and causal explanation.nThe appearances physics (as practised and preached by the Copenhagen de-nvelopers of quantum mechanics) has declined to explain are ‘the contents ofnmeasurement outcomes’