N. Luhmann's Theory of Systems in the Application to the Analysis of Scientific Communication

Abstract

This article represents the review of the Russian translation of N. Lumann's work which was published under the title "Truth, knowledge, science as a system". In article N. Lumann's approach to consideration of science as one of the communicative systems of society performing function on development of knowledge is reconstructed. Within this approach we consider in a separate way the the truthconditional perspective which is expressed by means of terms of language of the theory symbolically the generalized of media of communications. Special attention is paid to the potential of the reconstructed theory in the analysis of modern scientific community and to the relation of scientific system to other communicative systems (its differentiation from them and the possibility of interaction).