R&D AND THEORETICAL SCIENCE: A QUASI-PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202562220Keywords:
phenomenology, models of communication, science, deficit, dialogue, participation, popularization, artificial intelligence, mass mediaAbstract
Evgenii Tsurkan identifies three models of scientific communication – namely, the deficit, dialogue, and participation models – which represent a traditional framework for understanding the interaction between fundamental science and society at a high level of abstraction. At this level, two distinct types of knowledge are delineated: that generated by academic science and that embodied in techno-science. I argue that by employing a modified version of phenomenological analysis – one focused on a specific phenomenon, such as everyday practices in the field of artificial intelligence – a third possible mode of communication can be identified.
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