Targeted scientific research and transformation in the professional activity of the scientist

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2021.01.149

Keywords:

target scientific research, «knowledge to order», basic researches, applied researches, transformations of a profession of a scientist, humanities of scientific research

Abstract

Modern science is increasingly focused on research that solves specific technological problems. In the world literature there are different, but generally similar, names for such studies. For example, German and Russian researchers use the term «problem-oriented research», the names  «mission-oriented research», research as a response to «great challenges» and «frontier research», «science mode 2» are also used. In Ukraine, particularly in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the name «targeted research programs» and «targeted scientific (scientific and technical) projects» are used.

The article analyzes features of targeted research and the status of the obtained knowledge. It emphasizes their direct involvement in the social sphere — economic, political, social relations in general, because they are the basis of modern technology and their development is interested in the general public — producers and consumers of material goods. The knowledge obtained in these studies is knowledge «to order», which requires a solution to the relationship between basic and applied research, the principles of professional activity of scientists, «academic freedoms», changes in epistemological, socio-humanitarian principles of science as a social institution.

In the professional activity of a scientist, the praxeologization of science requires an ori- entation on the humanity of the produced knowledge, which, in fact, is a combination of knowledge about nature with knowledge about human. In this case, the scientist must be an expert in related disciplines. The organizers of targeted research solve this situation through the collective implementation of research, or, as expressed by R. Florida, the use of «social intelligence». At the same time, the latter requires from the scientist, as a specialist, not only purely professional competencies but also individual psychological skills of work (creativity) in an interdisciplinary team (mutual assistance, tolerance, empathy, etc.) and interaction with the transdisciplinary community. Otherwise, the profession of a scientist becomes socially en- gaged in terms of competencies and activities, and the leader in the research team performs moderative rather than directive functions.

Although targeted research programs are becoming widespread, leading in solving urgent practical problems, but in the scientific field, a balance must be maintained between research «to order» and research that will be the basis for future development of science and society.

Author Biography

Larysa Ryzhko

Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, professor, leading researcher at G.M. Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 60, Taras Shevchenko boulevard, Kyiv, 01032

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Ryzhko, L. (2021). Targeted scientific research and transformation in the professional activity of the scientist: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE . Filosofska Dumka, (1), 149–161. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2021.01.149

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