"6K" Post-non-classical Epistemology

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.49How to use a DOI?

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cultural-historical type of science; classical epistemology of science; non-classical epistemology of science; post-non-classical epistemology of science

Abstract

In the course of the global evolution of world science, there was a consistent change of its six cultural and historical types: ancient Eastern science, ancient science, medieval European science, classical modern European science, non-classical science and post-non-classical science. The formation of modern science, the first stage of development of which was called the classical science, occurred in Europe during the Renaissance and Modern Times. It was based on an experimental study of knowable objects at an empirical level and a mathematical description of the laws of these objects at a theoretical level. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a result of the global scientific revolution, non-classical science came to replace classical science with its ontology and new epistemology, and in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the same fate befell non-classical science. It was replaced by a new cultural-historical type of science, called “post-non-classical science”. The article carries out a rational reconstruction of the conceptual core of post-non-classical epistemology against the background of its comparison with the principles of classical and non-classical epistemology. The result of this reconstruction is the proposed in the article understanding of the core of post-non-classical epistemology as a set of “6 K” principles: constructivism of scientific cognition, contextuality of scientific awareness and knowledge, like scientific cognition (its basic conventionality and metaphorical character), cultural dependence of the dynamics of science and scientific cognition, communicative the nature of the process of scientific cognition, the consensual nature of scientific truths (their social and expert nature).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sergey Lebedev
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - "6K" Post-non-classical Epistemology
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 207
EP  - 210
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.49
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