PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ITS OBJECT: DIALECTICS OF CONTROL AND AUTONOMY
Olga Evgenievna Stoliarova1,2
1Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, ap. 22-25, Ac. Varga st., Moscow, 117133, Russia
Keywords: философия науки, наука, познание, метод, автономия, контроль, польза, philosophy of science, science, knowledge, method, autonomy, control, benefit
Abstract
The article analyzes a common view that philosophy of science is useless for science. We show that the question of the benefit that philosophy of science could provide to its object, i.e. science, is put similarly to the question of the benefit that science could provide to its object, i.e. the nature under study. The expected neutrality of nature towards the one who studies it is projected on the attitude of science to philosophy which studies it. But nature responds to our efforts to study it by forcing us to reconsider our ideas of a controlled benefit. Whether this not the case of relations between science and philosophy of science? When science shows disregard of philosophy it breaks in the territory of philosophy and thus demonstrates its non-neutrality towards philosophy, allowing for a productive dialogue of the parties concerned.
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