The problem of “high-speed science”

Iri­na A. Gerasi­mo­va
Insti­tute of Phi­los­o­phy, Russ­ian Acad­e­my of Sci­ence

The prob­lem of “high-speed sci­ence”

Abstract. The pur­pose of the study is to ana­lyze the prob­lem of the time of sci­en­tif­ic research, project activ­i­ties, inno­v­a­tive devel­op­ments and their imple­men­ta­tion. The author dis­cuss­es this issue in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary way, giv­ing it the sta­tus of a glob­al epoch prob­lem and sin­gling out the socio-polit­i­cal, cog­ni­tive and glob­al-com­mu­nica­tive aspects of it. The com­mer­cial­iza­tion of sci­en­tif­ic research and automa­tion in the man­age­ment of sci­ence lead to an inten­si­fi­ca­tion of sci­en­tists’ work, pro­vok­ing an irre­spon­si­ble atti­tude toward cog­ni­tive activ­i­ty. Glob­al­ly, man­agers in sci­ence and edu­ca­tion act as cat­a­lysts in the destruc­tion of the ratio­nal sci­ence sys­tem. The author con­nects new trends that change the direc­tions of cog­ni­tive search, with areas of exchange both between sci­en­tif­ic dis­ci­plines, and between sci­en­tif­ic and non-sci­en­tif­ic knowl­edge. Dis­cus­sion issues of socio-human­i­tar­i­an tech­nolo­gies for the orga­ni­za­tion of trad­ing zones refer to the tra­di­tion­al top­ic of dis­cus­sions in sci­ence as forms of sci­en­tif­ic research. The author draws atten­tion to the per­spec­tive role of cog­ni­tive tech­nolo­gies in sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies. The author dis­cuss­es the pos­si­bil­i­ties of con­nect­ing ideas of self-real­iza­tion prac­tices to the dis­cus­sion, tak­ing as an exam­ple the actu­al prob­lems of the cor­re­la­tion between real­ism and con­struc­tivism and the sta­tus of thought exper­i­ments for the phi­los­o­phy of sci­ence. The author makes a con­clu­sion about the vir­tu­al­iza­tion of sci­en­tif­ic cre­ativ­i­ty in the techno­genic civ­i­liza­tion. If ear­li­er the ques­tion was about the respon­si­bil­i­ty for the action and the word, today, with the grow­ing pace of devel­op­ment, the ques­tion of respon­si­bil­i­ty for thought is aris­ing. The term “fast sci­ence” has two inter­pre­ta­tions: in the social aspect – as «hasty, poor qual­i­ty» and in the cog­ni­tive aspect – as the future sci­ence of «high speeds of the inter­nal poten­tial of the mind».

Key­words: “slow sci­ence”, time bud­get, neo-man­age­r­i­al cap­i­tal­ism, auton­o­my of sci­en­tif­ic research, trad­ing zones, extra-sci­en­tif­ic knowl­edge.

DOI: 10.5840/dspl20181332

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