The Social Philosophy of Science: On the Possibilities of the Theory of Social Technologies

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

Sergey M. Antakov
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

Valer­ij V. Bel­yarov
Nizh­ny Nov­gorod State Med­ical Acad­e­my

Alek­san­dr M. Dorozhkin
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

Vladimir A.Kutyrev
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

Dmitriy A. Sko­ro­du­mov
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

Dmitriy Y. Shat­alov-Davy­dov
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

Svet­lana V. Shibarshi­na
Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod

The Social Phi­los­o­phy of Sci­ence: On the Pos­si­bil­i­ties of the The­o­ry
of Social Tech­nolo­gies

Abstract. In March 28, 2017, a dis­cus­sion on the role of phi­los­o­phy in the under-stand­ing of social tech­nolo­gies took place at the Fac­ul­ty of Social Sci­ence, Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ny Nov­gorod. The dis­cus­sion focused on the con­cep­tu­al analy­sis of this phe­nom­e­non and the pos­si­ble involve­ment of phi­los­o­phy in con­struct­ing the the­o­ry of social tech­nolo­gies. Dur­ing the dis­cus­sion, social tech­nolo­gies appeared as a philo­soph­i­cal, polit­i­cal and sci­en­tif­ic issue shaped by their def­i­n­i­tion. The par­tic­i­pants con­sid­ered a vari­ety of approach­es to the analy­sis of this phe­nom­e­non.

Key­words: social phi­los­o­phy of sci­ence, social and human­i­tar­i­an tech­no­lo-gies, social prac­tice, social trans­for­ma­tion, social plan­ning, social engi­neer-ing, social agent, tech­nol­o­giza­tion.

DOI: 10.5840/dspl2018112