Philosophy and methodology of science

The book presents the concept of the structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge, developed by B.C.Textingen and has a wide range of applications in the methodology of natural, technical and socio-humanitarian sciences. The main operations of the formation of scientific theories and empirical facts are traced. The structures and functions of the foundations of science (the scientific picture of the world, ideals and the norms of research, philosophical grounds) in the processes of generating new scientific knowledge and its inclusion in the flow of cultural broadcast are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the analysis of historical types of scientific rationality, the criteria for their distinction, their roles as the values ​​of the culture of man-made civilization.
The book is addressed to scientists, teachers, graduate students and students, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the problems of philosophy and methodology of scientific knowledge, the fate of scientific and technological development in the modern era of social change