MIRIAM SOLOMON’S SOCIAL EMPIRICISM: UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
D.V. Rakhinsky1,2,3, R.P. Musat3, G.V. Panasenko3
1Prof. Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
3Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Keywords: scientific consensus, social empiricism, disagreement, rationality, scientific success, social epistemology
Abstract
The article examines the key provisions of social empiricism, an approach to understanding the functioning and progress of science developed by M. Solomon. The ways to explain the emergence of consensus and disagreement in scientific communities proposed by Solomon are analysed. It is shown that adopting the position of social empiricism results in the need for a certain view both on the dynamics of the functioning of scientific communities and on the very nature of scientific knowledge.
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