德裔美国著名科学哲学家卡尔·亨普耳的《自然科学的哲学》一书已成为国外和香港的大学中科学哲学课程的一本主要教材,尤其是科学史和科学哲学系或专业的本科生或研究生的规定读物.我们认为,此书也适合于作为国内的教材(事实上,国内一些开设科学哲学课程的大学已经选用它作为教材),这就是我们翻译本书的目的.愿它的出版能对我国科学哲学的进一步发展起有益的推动作用.科学哲学是一门学科科学哲学是一门得到国际公认的哲学学科,可 Karl Hendrul, the famous German philosopher of science, has become a staple of the philosophy of science in universities both abroad and in Hong Kong, especially in the history of science and philosophy of science or undergraduate degree Students or graduate students, we think this book is also suitable as a domestic textbook (in fact, some of the country’s philosophy of science philosophy course has chosen it as a textbook), this is our translation of the book’s purpose. Publication can play a useful role in promoting the further development of Chinese philosophy of science.Science philosophy is a discipline Philosophy of science is an internationally recognized philosophy,