Knowledge in a Postnonclassical Science and Its Social Value
The question “What does it mean to know?” is becoming extremely important for modern philosophy. In the article the knowledge is analyzed as a product of postnonclassycal science. It studies the question how the nature of the knowledge changes in connection with the development of the new postnonclassycal paradigm of science. What means to know when we are talking about cognition of complex selfdeveloping systems, including a man, that is the object of postnonclassycal science. The peculiarities of social and cultural being on the whole and specific character of the modern stage of scientific dynamics influence the transformation of knowledge. The knowledge in postnonclassycal science entails not the absoute truth, but the social importance.
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Issue: 12, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Sociology)
Pages: 26 — 30
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