1 Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2 Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine (Ukraine)
3 Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/32/7
Received: 11 October 2023 / Accepted: 16 November 2023 / Published: 5 February 2024
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the specifics of the values of contemporary science communication. The values of science are still underestimated by many science researchers, in particular, sociologists. At the same time, the clear definition of the key values of science and intersubjective understanding about them increasingly determine the success of research. After all, values underlie the motivation of human behavior in general and the behavior of a scientist in particular. Academic values should be a priority in motivating the behavior of an individual scientist and science communication in general. Although values indicate to a greater extent what is desired, rather than what is available, they cannot be reduced to an ideal that is absent in reality, because values are already represented in the real behavior of people. The values of science have not only a regulatory nature of intellectual values (the abstract search for scientific truth as a higher goal, the power of the human intellect, academic freedom as an ideal, etc.), but also a specific functional and pragmatic significance – as specific instrumental values (institutional and organizational values, communicative competences, etc.). Despite the fact that values have an interpretive nature, they are neither subjectively limited nor arbitrarily relative to different social groups: the significance of values is determined by the communication in which these values are used by their carriers. The need for collective recognition of the values of science communication appears especially clearly and acutely in the clarification of the problems of ethics and morality of science communication, in particular in the issues of inclusiveness of science communication.
Keywords: science communication, academic values, communicative values, inclusiveness, moral normativity of science.
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