PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE AT THE TURN OF XX AND THE XXI-ST CENTURIES

Problem of the “end of philosophy” in the past and the present. “The project of Modern” as a subject of critical discussion. Postmodernism philosophy: spiritual and theoretical sources and the basic stages of formation. Values and aims of philosophy in a postmodern epoch.

Philosophy and futurology. Globalization as a process of formation of a new world order and object of social and philosophical understanding. The basic models and globalization scenarios. Social and cultural globalization parameters.

Communicative paradigm in modern social philosophy. The global market of information technologies and network structures of communications. Ethics of communication and discourse.

Philosophy and ecological imperatives of a modern civilization. Man and the nature in the man-caused culture. Prospects of a sustainable development and co-evolution of man and biosphere. Ethics, economy and the right as necessary components of ecological culture of postindustrial society.

Spiritually-ecological civilization as an ideal and the goal of mankind development. “An epoch of globalism” and a problem of development of the Belarus national culture and state system.

Philosophy as methodology of interdisciplinary synthesis of knowledge. Integrative tendencies in science and prospect of the synergetic style of thinking development. A problem of scientific rationality and the form of its evolution in modern philosophy of a science.

Approximate long-term plan of subjects for

“PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE”

(120 hours)

3. ПРАКТИКУМЫ ПО КУРСУ

«ФИЛОСОФИЯ И МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ НАУКИ»

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РАЗДЕЛ I. ФИЛОСОФИЯ И ЦЕННОСТИ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИИ

Тема 1. Статус и предназначение философии в жизни общества

Вопросы для обсуждения

1. Философия и мировоззрение. Исторические типы мировоззрения.
2. Природа философских проблем. Динамика проблемного поля философии.
3. Философия и другие формообразования культуры: наука, искусство, религия.
4. Философия как личностное знание и рационально-критическая форма мировоззрения.
5. Философия в контексте культурных традиций Востока и Запада.
6. Типологическое единство классической философии.
7. Классика и современность: две эпохи в развитии европейской философии.
8. Мировоззренческие ориентации философии в постклассической культуре.
9. Философское знание в современном мире культурного многообразия.
10. Прогностический потенциал современной философии.

Примерный план семинарского занятия