Open AccessDoes epistemology need to investigate empirical facts?
Author(s) -
Vladislav A. Lektorsky,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
filosofiâ nauki i tehniki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-7297
pISSN - 2413-9084
DOI - 10.21146/2413-9084-2021-26-2-22-28
Subject(s) - epistemology , epistemology of wikipedia , presupposition , social epistemology , normative , formal epistemology , criticism , sociology , function (biology) , cognition , philosophy , psychology , art , literature , evolutionary biology , neuroscience , biology
The author has investigated the discussion about the way of elaborating epistemological problems: is it necessary to preserve traditional philosophical problems and methods of analysis or it is better to give up philosophical ways of thinking and to begin developing epistemology as empirical science. The author defends the thesis that now epistemology is engaging in an intensive dialogue with cognitive sciences, that presupposes mutual enrichment and mutual criticism. At the same time epistemology doesn’t lose its normative function, as it a critically analyses the presuppositions of theories in cognitive sciences. In this connection the theory of social relay races bу outstanding Russian philosopher M.A. Rozov is being analyzed.