COMMUNICATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF SCIENCE: SOME COMMENTS
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https://doi.org/10.5840/eps20256214Keywords:
classification of sciences, communication, natural kinds, domains of science, social epistemologyAbstract
The article is devoted to the consideration of the communicative classification of science proposed by Alexander Antonovski. Its key feature is an attempt to avoid referring to the concept of natural kinds as a basis for constructing the classification. It is shown that despite the desire to get rid of this idea, it is present in it. At the same time, the presentation of natural kinds of individual disciplines as thematizations of the research field, around which it is formed, allows us to avoid referring to this concept. This allows us to consider research areas as large scientific domains, which in the process of communication between scientists are gradually concretized and transformed into separate scientific disciplines. In this case, the development of scientific knowledge becomes a process of formation and expansion of communication both between scientists and between scientists and society. In our opinion, such clarification allows us to make the concept of classification of sciences based on communication processes more transparent.
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