Communications in Science: Epistemological, Socio-cultural and Infrastructural Aspects. Materials of the Round Table

The topic to which this round table is dedicated belongs to the one of a very actual epistemological problematics aspect which was inspired by the processes of transformation that take place in modem science. Today forms of scientist's collective work change intensively, the structure of science as a social institute is changing, as well as its role in the society and society's relation to science, the same takes place with its socio-cultural status; and all these changes anyway are projected on scientific communications. Nowadays all forms of communications connected with scientific activity are transforming, that in its place requires the development of new forms of scientific inner communication (inside-the-discipline and interdisciplinary) and communicative interaction with outer social-cultural environment. Accordingly, the problematics of scientific communications turns out in the focus of philosophical-methodological reflexion on science attention and specially of philosophy of science; the problematics that indeed synthesizes in it all taking place in science changes in the prism of the very actual for modern science task during the scientific research and social application of its results to surpass the communicative gaps between scientists of different profiles, and also between scientists and engineers, businessmen, officials, politicians, various social groups. Hereby in the center of philosophical discussions that took place in the "round table" were the questions about the nature and forms of defined social humanitarian technologies of scientific communication, about the "trading zones", about the constructing of common language and picture of the world.