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The Rationality of Science on the Meta-metalevel

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Zurkowska G.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 3-4
345-362
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In this paper, the authoressI defends the thesis that it is impossible to resolve the problem of rationality of science on a meta-metalevel, which practically means that the debate between classical and non-classical conceptions of rationality is unable to solve the problem but generates new paradoxes. Instead of going endlessly 'up', it would be better to go 'down' and ask, if philosophers of science properly recognized the object level on which scientific practices took place. If the debate between so called classical and non-classical conceptions of rationality of science took the form of radical antinomy, it means that it would not be epistemically important anymore and it could not be continued in this form. If so, it is time for a new solution, a new Copernican turn.
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Cognitive Values in Science: the Encouragement for a Discussion

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Strawinski W.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 3-4
385-391
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This short paper is devoted to questions concerning the essence and role of cognitive values whose realization is deemed a guarantee of the rationality of science. In this context, the author quotes theses formulated (in philosophy of science) by different authors (Hacking, Walczak) - expressing the positions that defend the idea of scientific rationality (e.g. logical empiricism and critical rationalism) as well as those that undermine it (e.g. historical and sociological relativism) - and identify cognitive values connected with particular theses. In the final part of the paper, encouraging to the discussion concerning cognitive values in science, he suggests a reflection on the problem whether a descriptivist or a expressivist evaluative terms meaning conception works in favour of any of the sides in the philosophical issue about scientific rationality.
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Rationality of Science?

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Kleszcz R.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 3-4
363-372
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The problem of rationality of science has been explored by many philosophical and methodological schools in the 20th century. In 'The Rationality of Science. Problems, Conceptions and Arguments' Monika Walczak examines two models of rationality: Classical Concepts of the Rationality of Science (CCRS) and Non-classical Concepts of the Rationality of Science (NCRS). According to the adherents of CCRS (e.g. logical empiricism and the Lvov - Warsaw School), rationality of science is characterized by: demarcationism, the idea of scientific theories as deductive structure, scientific realism, objectivism, reconstructionistic strategy, epistemological fundamentalism, the maximalistic idea of logical consistency and universalistic understanding of this criteria. For the adherents of NCRS, in contrast to CCRS, rationality of science is characterized by: anti-demarcationism, pluralistic vision of the bearers of scientific rationality, scientific antirealism, anti-objectivism, descriptionistic strategy, epistemological anti-fundamentalism, the minimalistic idea of logical consistency and pluralistic understanding of the criteria of rationality. Rationality of Science. Problems, Conception and Arguments is clear, informed, stimulating discussion that will be interesting to a wide range of philosophers, methodologist, scientist and others concerned with the status of rationality of science.
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The Rationality of Science - a Never-ending Issue

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Kwiatkowski S.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 3-4
429-439
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The rationality of science cannot be solely restricted to methodological issues. It has to relate to the broader philosophical dimension. According to Kant's idea, philosophy representing universal concerns of the human mind, has to unite its universality with the rationality of scientific cognition. In this mutual relationship between philosophy and science, Kant's concept of regulative ideas plays a vital role.
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TROUBLES WITH THE RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE - FROM RICHNESS TO DESTRUCTION (Klopoty z racjonalnoscia nauki - od bogactwa do destrukcji)

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Czarnocka M.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2009
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vol. 45
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issue 1(179)
25-39
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It is shown that, nowadays, the notion of the rationality of science has been subjected to deflation. This deflation occurs, because every philosophical conception of science generates its own notion of rationality that is arbitrary, particular, closed in one conception of science, not applicable to comparative appraisals of science in respect to rationality, and, therefore, non-effective, useless. In order to restitute the value of the category of rationality it is necessary to return to fundamental and non-particular rooting of its sense, namely to rationality viewed as rational character human being.
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