When Ron Giere (1999, 2006) introduced perspectivism into philosophy of science, he provided a perspectivist analysis of both scientific instruments and scientific theorizing. Today, there is a burgeoning literature that extends Giere’s analysis of theorizing, with many philosophers examining the perspectivist approach to aspects of theorizing such as models, laws, explanations, and so on. However, relatively little attention has been paid to Giere’s analysis of instruments. In this article, I hope to fill this gap. I argue that the perspectivist analysis of instruments (“instrumental perspectivism”) should be rejected. First, I give a general account of the kind of instrumentation relevant to instrumental perspectivism, drawing on Cartwright’s notion of nomological machines, which forms the basis of my criticism of Giere’s argument for instrumental perspectivism. Next, I present the case against instrumental perspectivism. I argue that instrumental perspectivism is dependent on theoretical perspectivism in a way that robs it of philosophical significance, and that it introduces new puzzles while adding little to our understanding of instruments.

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吉尔的工具视角主义

当罗恩·吉尔（Ron Giere，1999，2006）将透视主义引入科学哲学时，他提供了对科学仪器和科学理论化的透视主义分析。如今，有大量新兴文献扩展了Giere对理论化的分析，许多哲学家都在研究针对主义的理论化方面的透视主义方法，例如模型，法则，解释等。但是，对Giere的仪器分析关注相对较少。在本文中，我希望填补这一空白。我认为应该拒绝对工具的透视主义分析（“工具性透视主义”）。首先，我以卡特赖特的名词学机器概念为基础，对与工具视角主义有关的一种工具进行了一般性说明，这构成了我对Giere的工具主义视角论的批评的基础。接下来，我提出反对工具视角主义的案例。我认为工具透视主义在某种程度上依赖于理论透视主义，在某种意义上剥夺了它的哲学意义，它引入了新的难题，同时又对我们对工具的理解几乎没有增加。