SCIENCE AS AN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND NEW MODELS (A Project Idea)
Sergey Alevtinovich Smirnov
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: science, techno-sciences, development institution, institutional forms of science, models of science, Akademgorodok 2.0, scientific community
Abstract
The article introduces the idea of science as a development institution. The author proposes to consider the issue of the need to work out a response to global challenges from the perspective of institutional restructuring and reconceiving the whole field of science. For this purpose, two models of science are compared on the example of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok: the model within the framework of the project of a scientific town, which belongs to M.A. Lavrentiev's period, and the one within the framework of the new concept "Akademgorodok 2.0", which is currently being developed. The author emphasizes that in view of global challenges, former disputes about various attitudes in science, about scientific revolutions in T. Kuhn's spirit, disputes between metaphysics and logic, between ontologists and relativists have reached their limit; today, such contrasts are no longer relevant. Times have changed and science as an institution has got other tasks - it should become an institution of development. The article also notes that science itself can no longer be just a science; it becomes a techno-science.
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