The article analyzes the current state and prospects of the philosophical and methodological issue of the cognitive functions of the social experiment as a method of social research. It seems that it can be justifiably argued that comprehension of the centuries-old experience of conducting socio-economic, socio-psychological, socio-pedagogical and socio-administrative experiments leads to a sad conclusion about the scientific unreliability of their results. A significant part of the experiments contain signs of bias, the manipulation of researchers with their subjects and methodological tools in order to obtain deliberately planned or preferred results. In cases of complete scientific conscientiousness and correctness of the experiment, it is almost never possible to repeat it, reproduce it in order to verify, supplement and clarify its data, because neither the subjectivity of the researcher and the subjects, nor the sociocultural conditions and circumstances of the experimental action can be reproduced. Thus, it turns out that social experimentation did not lead to the replenishment of the array of social knowledge, leaving only individual cases, variably interpreted data, that it only participated in the verification and substantiation of significant hypotheses and theories as an auxiliary tool. The degree of freedom of social behavior does not allow one to hope to obtain reliable knowledge through experimental work with social individuals and groups, but, on the other hand, social experimentation is increasingly manifesting itself as a useful intermediate social practice, as a technology for measuring the acceptability of specific innovations in a particular society. It is suggested that it would be useful to reconsider the methodological and philosophical and scientific understanding of the meaning and tasks (functions) of the social experiment.
The article is a revised version of a report prepared and read at the international scientific conference “What is a community? Social hermeneutics, power and media” (Belgorod, 2019). Changes’ took place that significantly clarify the very idea of the congress, its substantive content and historical relevance during the preparation for the publication of the following report materials within a few months (!). Communication as a living sense-forming beginning of the congress has been tested by the idea of social distance as some completely stable form of self-organization of the philosophical community. The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the emergence of new conditions for its possibility: the personal turned out to be in some involuntary, “digital” identity with the public. It was impossible not to take these changes into account in the final edition of the text of the report, which included some additional semantic accents and historical information. The presented material specifies the historical semantics of the idea of a philosophical congress, its substantive content and relevance. The article substantiates the understanding of the congress as a special, value-rich form of cognitive activism. The ethical and communicative meanings of the international philosophical congress are as a special or formative dialogic constellation of professional community, which does not require renouncing the individuality of each of the participants. It is thus important to suggest the moral prospects of the next VII Russian Philosophical Congress in probably an intensive connection with the renewal of value-epistemological attitudes and traditional technologies of philosophical education as an indispensable condition for the moral health of a philosophizing people.
е.н. мотовникова* о ПроблемаХ и стратегияХ реконструкЦии русской традиЦии органического Понимания истории** В статье анализируются научная актуальность и философско-методологические возможности исторической реконструкции органического понимания ис тории как целостной традиции в русской мысли xix-xx вв. Автор рассматривает проблемы, с которыми может столкнуться исследователь, реконструируя специфику метода и стиля мышления органицистов, а также размышляет о наиболее адекватной и методологически эффективной позиции исследователя в данном контексте.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.