Ilya Kasavin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilya Kasavin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilya |
| FAMILY NAME | Kasavin |
| SIGNATURE | KASAVIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Weatherford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1233-3182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The “Strong Programme”
The article proposes a reconstruction of the rise of the “Strong Programme” in the sociology of scientific knowledge as a special kind of interdisciplinary project. This project intends to address a range of educational and research challenges that are now more clearly understood than they were at the time. The project’s overarching goal was to expand the natural science education program at a British university by introducing a new social scienc…
The Ontological Status of Scientific Classifiers
The article raises the question of the ontological status of scientific classifiers, the adequacy of their realistic or conventionalist interpretation. The subject of situational analysis is three different classification systems: the Code of State Categories Scientific and Technical Information, the Nomenclature of Scientific Specialties of the Higher Attestation Commission, and All-Science Journal Classification (ASJC). Special attention in th…
On the Epistemology of Art. The Method of Estrangement
The adherence of a number of 20th-century intellectuals to the concept and term “estrangement” (Verfremdung) unites writers, playwrights, sociologists, and philosophers in their striving for the renewal of humanitarian thought, for political nonconformism, and for the substantiation of the autonomy of the individual. Viktor Shklovsky, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Camus are vivid examples of such authors. Most of them had to go through difficult times,…
Taxonomies between realism and constructionism
This article appeared as a response to the article by Anna Sakharova “Taxonomies and scientific communication: a sociocultural approach to scientific classifications”, which I read in the manuscript. It proposes a social-constructivist approach to taxonomies in science, drawing on a number of representative cases from biology, medicine, and linguistics. Generally agreeing with this approach, I will draw attention to a number of controversial d…
The Concept of Taxon
The hypothesis that is put forward in the article asserts that the systematic (typological, classificatory, taxonomic) vision of a certain variety (set) as an object of scientific research is a fundamental condition for any particular conceptualization. According to the holistic view, a top-down movement is the starting point of theorizing and not the result of a generalization of particular conceptual constructions. The question of what exact…
The Knowledge Society
The article focuses on the nature of the modern knowledge society, which is characterized, first of all, by a sharp increase in intellectual capital (education, experience, skills, competencies, know-how, the price of personnel in the labor market, patents, etc.) in the amount of capitalization of large business. The knowledge society is a society of high social dynamics, the embodiment of the migration archetype, of rational discourse and intell…
Conceptualizing Scientific Progress Needs a New Humanism
The paper focuses on the controversial nature of progress in science and society. In the philosophy of science and technology, one usually views scientific progress in terms of theoretical and empirical success of a theory or research program. This view of progress leads to a paradox (novelty versus truth) and a gap between science and society (‘bold guesses’ versus ‘small steps’). Further, it assigns a special epistemological status to science a…
Science and Modern Humanism
The article proposes an understanding of science as a process of production of humanistic values and their translation in society, as well as an analysis of reflection on science from the point of view of humanistic ideals. This is one of the key topics of cultural/historical epistemology, the leading representative of which is Vladislav Alexandrovich Lektorsky. In the paper, the meaning of scientific humanism is revealed through answers to th…
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies
Disputes in the field of science and technology studies (STS) demonstrate its topicality as they elucidate the prospects for a postmodern world, and William Lynch in his book, in search of a constructive solution to current controversies, employs the dialectical approach of Lakatos and Feyerabend. Lynch takes a bold step to present an apparently “degenerated scientific research program” as a competitive alternative to the established and “progres…
The Humboldt-University and Its Rivals Under the Market Science Condition
In the modern rankings of higher education institutions almost monopolistic American universities (Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, etc.) play the leading role promoting the idea of the “entrepreneurial university”. The classic European university fails in the competition, and the idea of the Humboldt University is losing credibility. Our assumption is that this situation is in the large part due to the historical identity of civilizational missions…
Science as a Political Agent
A raft or a pyramid
The subject matter of the article is the problem of intellectual courage. Its origins can be traced from philosophical ethics, the psychology of morality, virtue epistemology, and the ethics of science. Intellectual courage represents the limit of reasonable fearlessness completing the continuum of “bravery – boldness – courage”. Intellectual courage is an epistemic virtue that ensures the development of knowledge (the discovery and justificatio…
Paradigm As an Ethics of Humility
An important element of the ethics of science is the professional code of scientific honesty transmitted by the scientific community. Basic research relies on the notion of gift-giving as a selfless ethical-cognitive relationship, one of the manifestations of which is scientific humility. The article establishes a link between the approach of virtue epistemology and ethical consequences from the concept of paradigm (T. Kuhn). Kuhn’s normative im…
The Scientist’s Dilemma
Gift versus Trade
This article aims at a critical reevaluation of the trading zone concept (Galison). It starts from a case study of the Faraday–Whewell collaboration in coming to terms with electrolysis experiments. The case is supposed to be an example of a trade zone of science/philosophy interaction though it demonstrates the unequal nature of the “trade.” This requires the analysis to log in some details concerning Galison’s metaphor of trading zones, which r…
Science and Public Good
The ethics of science becomes a significant part of science and technology studies since it pays attention not exclusively to the moral impact of society on scientists but to that of science on society as well. How can society benefit from scientific intellectuals apart from their ability to produce expert knowledge? Does and must science contribute to common good? The ethical impetus generated by Max Weber's lecture 'Wissenschaft als Beruf' (Sci…
From Avocation to Vocation
This article is an introduction to the current thematic issue dedicated to the seminal lecture by Max Weber 'Science as a vocation', published in 1919. Its centenary is worth celebrating because the work discovered new trends in the social nature of science in the very making of its professional institutional structure. In fact, this Weber text was one of the first to shape the agenda for the social studies of science. The proposed overview of th…
Contemporary Tendencies of Epistemology’s Development (round table discussion)
The positive philosophy by William Whewell
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология» — научно-теоретический рецензируемый журнал, обобщающий результаты исследований ученых всего мира в области традиционных философских дисциплин — онтологии, теории познания, логики, этики, социальной философии, эстетики, истории философии, философии культуры и философии религии, а также актуальные разработки в конфликтологии, философии политики и права
L'idée d'interdisciplinarité dans l'épistémologie contemporaine
Cet article présente quelques perspectives de l'épistémologie contemporaine, à partir de l'articulation entre contextualisme et approches interdisciplinaires. L'auteur y étudie notamment le rôle des différentes théories du contexte dans le cadre d'une épistémologie sociale
The Idea of Interdisciplinary Approach in Contemporary Epistemology
This paper presents some perspectives in contemporary epistemology, relating in particular to the links between contextualism and interdisciplinary approaches. The author considers the role played by different theories of context in the frame of a social epistemology
Gift versus Trade
This article aims at a critical reevaluation of the trading zone concept (Galison). It starts from a case study of the Faraday–Whewell collaboration in coming to terms with electrolysis experiments. The case is supposed to be an example of a trade zone of science/philosophy interaction though it demonstrates the unequal nature of the “trade.” This requires the analysis to log in some details concerning Galison’s metaphor of trading zones, which r…
L'idée d'interdisciplinarité dans l'épistémologie contemporaine
Cet article présente quelques perspectives de l'épistémologie contemporaine, à partir de l'articulation entre contextualisme et approches interdisciplinaires. L'auteur y étudie notamment le rôle des différentes théories du contexte dans le cadre d'une épistémologie sociale
The Idea of Interdisciplinary Approach in Contemporary Epistemology
This paper presents some perspectives in contemporary epistemology, relating in particular to the links between contextualism and interdisciplinary approaches. The author considers the role played by different theories of context in the frame of a social epistemology
Contemporary Tendencies of Epistemology’s Development (round table discussion)
The positive philosophy by William Whewell
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология» — научно-теоретический рецензируемый журнал, обобщающий результаты исследований ученых всего мира в области традиционных философских дисциплин — онтологии, теории познания, логики, этики, социальной философии, эстетики, истории философии, философии культуры и философии религии, а также актуальные разработки в конфликтологии, философии политики и права
The Scientist’s Dilemma
Gift versus Trade
This article aims at a critical reevaluation of the trading zone concept (Galison). It starts from a case study of the Faraday–Whewell collaboration in coming to terms with electrolysis experiments. The case is supposed to be an example of a trade zone of science/philosophy interaction though it demonstrates the unequal nature of the “trade.” This requires the analysis to log in some details concerning Galison’s metaphor of trading zones, which r…
Science and Public Good
The ethics of science becomes a significant part of science and technology studies since it pays attention not exclusively to the moral impact of society on scientists but to that of science on society as well. How can society benefit from scientific intellectuals apart from their ability to produce expert knowledge? Does and must science contribute to common good? The ethical impetus generated by Max Weber's lecture 'Wissenschaft als Beruf' (Sci…
From Avocation to Vocation
This article is an introduction to the current thematic issue dedicated to the seminal lecture by Max Weber 'Science as a vocation', published in 1919. Its centenary is worth celebrating because the work discovered new trends in the social nature of science in the very making of its professional institutional structure. In fact, this Weber text was one of the first to shape the agenda for the social studies of science. The proposed overview of th…
Science as a Political Agent
A raft or a pyramid
The subject matter of the article is the problem of intellectual courage. Its origins can be traced from philosophical ethics, the psychology of morality, virtue epistemology, and the ethics of science. Intellectual courage represents the limit of reasonable fearlessness completing the continuum of “bravery – boldness – courage”. Intellectual courage is an epistemic virtue that ensures the development of knowledge (the discovery and justificatio…
Paradigm As an Ethics of Humility
An important element of the ethics of science is the professional code of scientific honesty transmitted by the scientific community. Basic research relies on the notion of gift-giving as a selfless ethical-cognitive relationship, one of the manifestations of which is scientific humility. The article establishes a link between the approach of virtue epistemology and ethical consequences from the concept of paradigm (T. Kuhn). Kuhn’s normative im…
The Humboldt-University and Its Rivals Under the Market Science Condition
In the modern rankings of higher education institutions almost monopolistic American universities (Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, etc.) play the leading role promoting the idea of the “entrepreneurial university”. The classic European university fails in the competition, and the idea of the Humboldt University is losing credibility. Our assumption is that this situation is in the large part due to the historical identity of civilizational missions…
Conceptualizing Scientific Progress Needs a New Humanism
The paper focuses on the controversial nature of progress in science and society. In the philosophy of science and technology, one usually views scientific progress in terms of theoretical and empirical success of a theory or research program. This view of progress leads to a paradox (novelty versus truth) and a gap between science and society (‘bold guesses’ versus ‘small steps’). Further, it assigns a special epistemological status to science a…
Science and Modern Humanism
The article proposes an understanding of science as a process of production of humanistic values and their translation in society, as well as an analysis of reflection on science from the point of view of humanistic ideals. This is one of the key topics of cultural/historical epistemology, the leading representative of which is Vladislav Alexandrovich Lektorsky. In the paper, the meaning of scientific humanism is revealed through answers to th…
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies
Disputes in the field of science and technology studies (STS) demonstrate its topicality as they elucidate the prospects for a postmodern world, and William Lynch in his book, in search of a constructive solution to current controversies, employs the dialectical approach of Lakatos and Feyerabend. Lynch takes a bold step to present an apparently “degenerated scientific research program” as a competitive alternative to the established and “progres…
Taxonomies between realism and constructionism
This article appeared as a response to the article by Anna Sakharova “Taxonomies and scientific communication: a sociocultural approach to scientific classifications”, which I read in the manuscript. It proposes a social-constructivist approach to taxonomies in science, drawing on a number of representative cases from biology, medicine, and linguistics. Generally agreeing with this approach, I will draw attention to a number of controversial d…
The Concept of Taxon
The hypothesis that is put forward in the article asserts that the systematic (typological, classificatory, taxonomic) vision of a certain variety (set) as an object of scientific research is a fundamental condition for any particular conceptualization. According to the holistic view, a top-down movement is the starting point of theorizing and not the result of a generalization of particular conceptual constructions. The question of what exact…
The Knowledge Society
The article focuses on the nature of the modern knowledge society, which is characterized, first of all, by a sharp increase in intellectual capital (education, experience, skills, competencies, know-how, the price of personnel in the labor market, patents, etc.) in the amount of capitalization of large business. The knowledge society is a society of high social dynamics, the embodiment of the migration archetype, of rational discourse and intell…
On the Epistemology of Art. The Method of Estrangement
The adherence of a number of 20th-century intellectuals to the concept and term “estrangement” (Verfremdung) unites writers, playwrights, sociologists, and philosophers in their striving for the renewal of humanitarian thought, for political nonconformism, and for the substantiation of the autonomy of the individual. Viktor Shklovsky, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Camus are vivid examples of such authors. Most of them had to go through difficult times,…
The “Strong Programme”
The article proposes a reconstruction of the rise of the “Strong Programme” in the sociology of scientific knowledge as a special kind of interdisciplinary project. This project intends to address a range of educational and research challenges that are now more clearly understood than they were at the time. The project’s overarching goal was to expand the natural science education program at a British university by introducing a new social scienc…
The Ontological Status of Scientific Classifiers
The article raises the question of the ontological status of scientific classifiers, the adequacy of their realistic or conventionalist interpretation. The subject of situational analysis is three different classification systems: the Code of State Categories Scientific and Technical Information, the Nomenclature of Scientific Specialties of the Higher Attestation Commission, and All-Science Journal Classification (ASJC). Special attention in th…
Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology of scientific knowledge (5 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works)