Philosophical communities are going away. They are replaced by the community of scientists thinking philosophically

Author(s):  S.P. Schavelev, Dr., Prof., Kursk State Medical University, Kursk , Russia, sergei-shhavelev@yandex.ru

Issue:  Volume 44, № 3

Rubric:  Scientific Life and Communication

Annotation:  For almost three millennia of its existence philosophy has got the stages of knowledge: general theoretical knowledge, the theory of knowledge, the theory of itself. Finally, it came to its logical conclusion, it is completely turning into apart of the history of thought. Today, thinkers from the sphere of positive science and professional practice play the role of philosophy in developing a humanistic world view and methodology of knowledge, building a hierarchy of values of life, and culture. Unlike a hundred years ago positivism, whose logical-mathematical storming has been withstood by philosophy, the now day metaphysical thinkers — J. Diamond, F. de Waal, C.R. Dawkins, K. Lorenz, E.O. Wilson and many others are armed with discoveries in the field of the foundations of the universe. Therefore, “caste” philosophy still exists in academic and university structures as the result of cultural inertia and will be archived in the annals of the his-tory of ideas during life of current generations of intellectuals.

Keywords:  the concept of “community of experts”, philosophy, science, the philosophical conclusions of present-day science.

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