Cognitive Values in Science: the Encouragement for a Discussion

• Authors: Strawinski W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 385-391
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Strawinski W.

• W. Strawinski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Filozofii i Socjologii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA063810