Nauka i wartościowania – uwagi o kondycji filozoficznej refleksji nad nauką

Abstract

Science and evaluation - comments on the condition of philosophical reflection on science: This text is an attempt at a more general look at twentieth-century philosophical reflection on science conceived as persistent trials to eliminate the non-eliminateable, i.e. valuations. In this article, I recall the most important concepts of knowledge developed in the twentieth-century philosophy of science by exposing assumed axiology in, among other things: the Vienna Circle, Karl Raimund Popper’s falsificationism, the historical and social approach of Thomas S. Kuhn’s paradigm, and the concept of the ideals of knowledge by Stefan Amsterdamski. I argue that the axiology, and more broadly philosophy is an indelible component of each accepted concept of scientific knowledge. Each concept of knowledge assumes a form of its valuation.