The Digital Scholar and the Strategy of a Scholarly Journal in Philosophy

Ilya T. Kasavin
RAS Insti­tute of Phi­los­o­phy
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

The Dig­i­tal Schol­ar and the Strat­e­gy of a Schol­ar­ly Jour­nal in Phi­los­o­phy

Abstract. The arti­cle attracts atten­tion to the fact that a sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal (not a mag­a­zine) today is an essen­tial fac­tor in the devel­op­ment of sci­en­tif­ic research, as well as in the for­ma­tion of a sci­en­tif­ic tra­di­tion and cement­ing the dis­ci­pli­nary com­mu­ni­ty. The his­to­ry of philo­soph­i­cal jour­nal serves to illus­trate the dif­fer­ent ways tak­en by the aca­d­e­m­ic phi­los­o­phy on the con­ti­nent and in the Anglo-Sax­on world and the role of social and cul­tur­al cir­cum­stances in the process. This diver­gence not only expressed a known plu­ral­ism of the philo­soph­i­cal trends, but also led to some neg­a­tive con­se­quences. The social tech­nol­o­gy of sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal­ism reflects the pecu-liar­i­ties and con­tra­dic­tions of mod­ern sci­ence as a social insti­tu­tion, and in par­tic­u­lar, the con­tro­ver­sy between the com­mer­cial­iza­tion of knowl­edge and knowl­edge as a pub­lic good. Sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal only then per­forms a pos­i­tive role in the infor­ma­tion soci­ety, when it pro­motes the strat­e­gy of deal­ing with and under-stand­ing sci­ence as a cul­tur­al val­ue.

Key­words: nation­al philo­soph­i­cal tra­di­tion, types of sci­en­tif­ic jour­nals, A. Bain, H. Vei­hinger, dis­ci­pli­nary com­mu­ni­ty, infor­ma­tion soci­ety, sci­ence com­mer­cial­iza­tion, sci­ence as pub­lic good.

DOI: 10.5840/dspl2018111

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