Science and valuation — remarks about the condition of philosophical reflection on science Cover Image

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Science and valuation — remarks about the condition of philosophical reflection on science

Author(s): Grzegorz Trela
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Education, Social Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: science; values; valuation; axiology; knowledge

Summary/Abstract: This text is an attempt at a more general look at twentieth‑century philosophical reflection on science conceived as persistent trials to eliminate the non‑eliminateable, i.e. valuations. In this article, I recall the most important concepts of knowledge developed in the twentieth‑century philosophy of science by exposing assumed axiology in, among other things: the Vienna Circle, Karl Raimund Popper’s falsificationism, the historical and social approach of Thomas S. Kuhn’s paradigm, and the concept of the ideals of knowledge by Stefan Amsterdamski. I argue that the axiology, and more broadly philosophy is an indelible component of each accepted concept of scientific knowledge. Each concept of knowledge assumes a form of its valuation.

  • Issue Year: IV/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 277-298
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish