SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TURBULENCE

Abstract

Science in the modern sense as an experimental science was born only in the 16th century. Despite the fact that even in antiquity the process of accumulation and systematization of knowledge acquired a high level of empirical and practical status, it was far from a rational level. The science of antiquity offered solutions to specific problems, while science in its modern sense operates with theorems and axioms. With the development of science, since the 17th century, the practice of scientific communication has been formed in Europe. Scientific communication through correspondence brought together such intellectuals of the New Age as F. Bacon, G. Galileo, I. Newton, R. Descartes and many others. World science works at the global level as a network, the same “invisible college”. Between the “invisible collegium” of the 17th century and its 21st century counterpart there are many common features, they still contributed to the communication of leading intellectuals, they still function spontaneously. The theorist of communicative action J. Habermas said that his original theory should set new meanings for rationality and social architecture related to it. In conditions of social turbulence, there is a growing need for a special kind of heuristic scientist. A scientist guided by a special path of cognition to a deep understanding of the processes. His activity should be based on the already existing experience and be directed to the constructive result of cognition and action. The essence of this view of the process of cognition lies in the dualism of knowledge and understanding, for example, in the dynamic conditions of social turbulence, it is not enough just to look for the right or useful ways to solve the tasks set, it is also necessary to realize, search for meaning.