L. Tukhvatulina

Epistemology as a “Reflection of Social Ideology”: On the 50th Anniversary of D. Bloor’s “Strong Programme”

The article argues that knowledge is shaped not only by objective regularities and formal logical possibilities but also by a wide range of factors external to theory – social, cultural, and ideological. The author claims that the conceptions of scientific method, rationality, and professional virtues of the scientist,...