POLITICAL TURN IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Abstract

The subject of the connection between science and politics is a modern trend in the research of philosophers of science. Focusing on the analysis of the relationship between science and politics from the standpoint of the social philosophy of science, the study aims to represent a political turn in the philosophy of science and epistemology. The methodological basis of the study are the strategies and approaches of the social philosophy of science. This is an interdisciplinary approach that allows to build bridges between the philosophy of science and political philosophy. The methodological strategy of social epistemology is used in understanding knowledge as power game in the post-truth era. The author, based on interdisciplinary links, considers social epistemology and social philosophy of science as modern trends that focus research on understanding the strategy of individual and collective action of scientists. Scientific novelty is to justify a turn to the social and political philosophy of science, which makes it possible to analyze the relationship between science and politics from social approval and justification of science to the problem of trust in science and scientific knowledge, from the politics of science to the politics of knowledge. In the post-truth era, facts play less of a role than subjective judgments, feelings, beliefs, and emotions. Verification of knowledge plays a much smaller role, and the coherence of statements, completeness of information or conscience of its source are of less interest to recipients. Knowledge becomes a game, and truth becomes a reward in this game.