Theoretical Knowledge

Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface to the english edition -- Preface -- Chapter one Scientific cognition in a sociocultural context -- Science in the technogenic civilization culture -- Traditional and technogenic civilizations -- Global crises and the problem of the scientific-technical progress value -- Specificity of scientific cognition -- Main distinctive features of science -- Scientific and common cognition -- Genesis of scientific cognition -- Pre-science and developing science -- Spiritual revolution of antiquity -- Birth of the empirical sciences -- Chapter two Structure of theoretical knowledge -- Abstract objects of theory and their systemic organization -- Theoretical scheme and mathematical apparatus -- A theoretical scheme's role in deductive unfolding of a theory -- Theoretical schemes and experience. Operational status of theoretical schemes -- Chapter three the foundations of science -- Scientific picture of the world -- Worldview, philosophy, scientific picture of the world -- Historical evolution of the notion of the "scientific picture of the world" -- The picture of the world in a system of scientific knowledge -- Ideals, norms and philosophical foundations of science -- The ideals and norms of investigation -- Philosophical foundations of science -- Chapter four Genesis of theoretical knowledge in classical science -- Scientific picture of the world and experience -- Genesis of the primary theoretical models of classical science -- Formation of theoretical scheme as a hypothesis -- Justification and transformation of a hypothesis in a theoretical model of an object -- Constructing a developed theory in the classical science -- Chapter five Formation and development of theory in non-classical science -- Mathematical hypothesis and its empirical justification -- Peculiarities of modern forms of physical picture of the world and their role in putting forward mathematical hypotheses -- The problem of empirical verification of a mathematical hypothesis -- How a developed theory is formed in modern science -- The main stages of development of the mathematical apparatus of quantum electrodynamics -- Quantum mechanical picture of the world and its role in forming the mathematical apparatus of quantum electrodynamics -- Paradoxes of the theory created and the problem of interpretation -- Idealized procedures of field measuring and interpretation of the apparatus of quantum electrodynamics (the initial idea of Bohr- Rosenfeld procedures) -- Reconstruction of the theoretical model of quantized electromagnetic field and justification of its consistency -- The proof of measurability of quantized radiation fields -- Intermediate interpretations of apparatus of modern physical theory as a condition of its development -- Mutual connection of genesis and functioning of a theory. The constructibility principle -- Chapter six Scientific revolutions -- Science in the technogenic civilization culture -- Intradisciplinary revolutions -- Paradoxes and problem situations as premises of a scientific revolution -- Heuristic role of methodological schemes -- Philosophical premises of reconstruction of foundation of science -- From methodological ideas to theory and a new picture of the world -- Scientific revolutions and interdisciplinary interactions -- Global scientific revolutions as change of rationality type -- Tidt.