PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

This article refers to the analysis of a ratio of science and culture in the context of the new European philosophy. Science as a sociocultural phenomenon always had a special place in culture. Rapid development of science within the last two centuries naturally forces philosophy to look for new approaches to understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific activity.

The article is dedicated to the study of the problem area of modern philosophy, comprehension of its epistemological status in the system of science of science disciplines. Adverting to the number of basic conceptions of the western and Russian philosophy of science, the author tries to define the philosophy of science and makes an attempt to find out the further perspectives of this research area.

The article is devoted to the study, in the context of the tradition of the philosophy of science, of problems of rationality that are characteristic of the scientific research of Karl Marx. The philosophy of science is understood as a historical process and the historical result of the systematic application of the whole semantic potential of philosophy to the comprehension of the phenomenon of science, the history of science.