The philosophy of complexity management in terms of convergence of socio-humanitarian and natural-science knowledge. Papers of the “round table”

Abstract

The proposed discussion about understanding of interdisciplinary problems of science and prospective of the complexity methodology is directly associated with problems of complexity control and socio-humanitarian and natural science cultures dialogue that are converging today, which are the central issues in the work of the Department of Interdisciplinary Problems in the Advance of Science and Technology of Institute of Philosophy RAS for many years. This topic is key for solving philosophical and methodological issues of understanding techno-anthroposphere future, which was fruitfully researched by the head of the department Vitaly G. Gorokhov, one of the founding fathers of philosophy of technology in Russia whose memory this work is devoted to. Almost twenty years ago he was a first philosopher who became engaged in the philosophy of techno-science and convergent technologies, complexity, techno-ethics problems that have today become mainstream. The philosophy world of complexity relies on ontological and epistemological grounds of presentation of human-measurable, self-development systems that V. Stepin was developing in postnonclassical methodology paradigm already nearly thirty years. Postnonclassical science rationality is simultaneously considered like special type of rationality which possesses methodological specificity and also like framework construction that covers the methodological foundations of classical and non-classical science. Concurrently, contemporary interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary vision of the problem of complexity, techno-science, dialogue of cultures, information revolution and different challenges from the new technological paradigm necessarily call for the analysis of new phenomena constantly generated by network information environments, converging NBICS-technologies and digital economies. With this purpose problems and prospective further development of philosophical grounds of complexity-synergetic methodology, new principals of works by techno-social expertise and social technologies, network-communicate technologies in complexity management and rethinking in new discourses both integral scientific representations of traditional cultures and poststructuralist ontologies are described. Not only researchers of the Department took part in the discussion, but also the students and colleagues of V. G. Gorokhov, for whom the philosophy of science and technology has been a fact of life.