Ratiofundamentalism and its overcoming

Ratiofundamentalism and Its Overcoming is an original investigation demonstrating the insufficiency of the old approaches to the tasks of rational mind (of the scientific rationality), and first of all, to theory and experience interpretation, as the tasks of taming nature by human rationality. Not only the failure of the empiricism program in the modern physical-cosmological knowledge is made clear, but also the expectancies of the communicative program in epistemology are subjected to a profound criticism. The logical-epistemological unfoundedness of the main propositions of the communicative program is demonstrated: general validity takes the place of truth , communicative action the place of theory , and society the place of an individual . It is also shown that ratiofundamentalism was initiated in the history of European rationality by René Descartes who treated the old Parmenides identity of thinking and being in his own way. The book on the whole may be of interest for specialists in methodology and philosophy of science, as well as for those who care anyhow about the transformations of the European scientific rationality.

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Russian philosopher. Lives and works in Moscow. Specializes in the philosophy of science, ontology and epistemology. The project director of the research group "Ontology" in the Moscow Institute of Philosophy. Professor of Moscow State University. The author of five books and 170 articles in Russian and international journals.

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Ratiofundamentalism and Its Overcoming is an original investigation demonstrating the insufficiency of the old approaches to the tasks of rational mind (of the scientific rationality), and first of all, to theory and experience interpretation, as the tasks of taming nature by human rationality. Not only the failure of the empiricism program in the modern physical-cosmological knowledge is made clear, but also the expectancies of the communicative program in epistemology are subjected to a profound criticism. The logical-epistemological unfoundedness of the main propositions of the communicative program is demonstrated: general validity takes the place of truth , communicative action the place of theory , and society the place of an individual . It is also shown that ratiofundamentalism was initiated in the history of European rationality by René Descartes who treated the old Parmenides identity of thinking and being in his own way. The book on the whole may be of interest for specialists in methodology and philosophy of science, as well as for those who care anyhow about the transformations of the European scientific rationality.