On Scientific and Technological Paradigms Competitions in Ideological Control in Science Conditions

Modern science is, as Thomas Kuhn pointed out in his fundamental work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a science that develops in stages: “scientific revolution” – “nor-mal science” – “scientific revolution”. During periods of normal functioning of science, the rules of testing and testing show established and perceived without reflection para-digms, but in the case of technical disciplines, this rule does not work, since technical paradigms do not change according to the same rules as other scientific paradigms. To change technical paradigms, you only need to accept them by the expert community – you also need to accept them by technical consumers. The article discusses the difficul-ties of defining the concepts of “technology” and “technical knowledge” as knowledge about artifacts, their use and the consequences of their use (Bernhard Irrgang). On two examples of the control of technical paradigms in two totalitarian regimes of the twenti-eth century (Lysenkoism, or Lysenkovshchina and “Aryan physics”), the role of paradigms in the situation of ideological control is presented. In these cases, we used attempts to “correct” genetics and quantum physics (more precisely, to completely abandon it), respectively. Of course, this control brought biology in the Soviet Union and physics in Nazi Germany to the brink of disaster. In this article, with the help of Gisle Solbu's theory of epi-knowing (knowledge at the general educational level), we propose solutions to the problem of purposeful ideological interference in the scientific and ideological adjustments of not only scientific paradigms, but also scientific paradigms. © 2021.

Authors
Iakovlev A.A. 1 , Pchelko-Tolstova E.A. 1 , Andreev G.P.
Publisher
Izdatel'stvo Nauka
Number of issue
12
Language
Russian
Pages
213-219
Status
Published
Year
2021
Organizations
  • 1 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 6, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
Keywords
Epiknowing; Ideological control; Ideology; Lysenkoism; Paradigm; Technological paradigm; “German Physics”
Date of creation
06.07.2022
Date of change
06.07.2022
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/84762/
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