Pavlinov I Ia
Zh Obshch Biol. 2006 Mar-Apr;67(2):83-106.
Rise of non-classical science during XX century had certain influence upon development of biological taxonomy. Scientific pluralism (especially normative naturalism of Laudan), contrary to positivist and early post-positivist treatments, made taxonomy acknowledged scientific discipline of its own right. The present state of some schools of taxonomy makes it possible to consider them as a part of non-classical science and constituting the non-classical taxonomy. The latter is characterized by the following most important features. Ontological substantiation of both classificatory approaches and particular classifications is requested which invalidates such formal approaches as nominalistic and phenetic (numerical) schools. This substantiation takes a form of content-wise background preferably causal models which include certain axioms and presumptions about taxonomic diversity being studied, together with its causes, and thus define initial conditions of classificatory procedures. From this viewoint, phylogenetic classificatory approach is the most developed part of non-classical taxonomy. The entire taxonomic diversity is structured into several aspects of different levels of generality, each being outlined by a particular consideration aspect. The latter makes personal knowledge constituting an irremovable part of any scientific statement about taxonomic diversity, thus opposition of "objectively" and "subjectively" elaborated classifications becomes vague. Interrelation of various species concepts corresponding to its different consideration aspects is described by uncertainty relation principle. Classificatory algorithms are to be compatible with the conditions of a background model to ensure particular classifications obtained by their means are interpretable within the same model: this is provided by the correspondence principle. Classification is considered as a taxonomic hypothesis, i.e. a conjectural judgement about structure of particular fragment of taxonomic diversity considered within given consideration aspect; wich is to be forwarded and tested according to certain rules. Recognition of different aspects of taxonomic diversity makes it "legal" to elaborate several classifications of equal status, each reflecting a particular aspect of a fixed fragment of that diversity. This viewpoint makes classical ideas of the "ultimate" Natural (whatever might be its definition) or the best reference systems futile. In general, any pretension of an approach to be "the best" in reflecting taxonomic divesrity is contr-productive. Instead, elaboration of particular spectra of complementary classifications becomes the main task of non-classical taxonomy which describes in sum the entire taxonomic diversity. So, not opposition but correct mutual interpretation of such classifications and uniting them into the comprehensive picture of taxonomic diversity become focal points of non-classical taxonomy.
20世纪非经典科学的兴起对生物分类学的发展产生了一定影响。与实证主义和早期后实证主义的处理方式相反,科学多元论(尤其是劳丹的规范自然主义)使分类学成为一门有其自身权利的公认科学学科。分类学的一些学派的现状使得可以将它们视为非经典科学的一部分,并构成非经典分类学。后者具有以下最重要的特征。要求对分类方法和特定分类进行本体论论证,这使得唯名论和表型(数值)学派等形式方法无效。这种论证采取内容性背景的形式,最好是因果模型,其中包括关于正在研究的分类多样性及其原因的某些公理和假设,从而定义分类程序的初始条件。从这个观点来看,系统发育分类方法是非经典分类学中最发达的部分。整个分类多样性被构建为不同一般性水平的几个方面,每个方面都由一个特定的考虑方面来勾勒。后者使得个人知识成为关于分类多样性的任何科学陈述中不可去除的一部分,因此“客观”和“主观”阐述的分类之间的对立变得模糊。对应于其不同考虑方面的各种物种概念之间的相互关系由不确定性关系原则来描述。分类算法要与背景模型的条件兼容,以确保通过它们获得的特定分类在同一模型内是可解释的:这由对应原理来提供。分类被视为一种分类假设,即关于在给定考虑方面内所考虑的分类多样性的特定片段结构的推测性判断;它要根据某些规则提出并进行检验。认识到分类多样性的不同方面使得详细阐述几个具有同等地位的分类成为“合法”的,每个分类都反映了该多样性的固定片段的一个特定方面。这种观点使得“终极”自然(无论其定义如何)或最佳参考系统的经典观念变得徒劳。一般来说,任何声称一种方法在反映分类多样性方面是“最好的”的说法都是适得其反的。相反,详细阐述互补分类的特定光谱成为非经典分类学的主要任务,它总体上描述了整个分类多样性。因此,不是这些分类之间的对立,而是对它们的正确相互解释并将它们统一到分类多样性的综合图景中,成为非经典分类学的焦点。