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Cognitive Empathy and Rational Reconstructions of the History of Science
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Cognitive Empathy and Rational Reconstructions of the History of Science
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S004287440005740-9-
DOI
10.31857/S004287440005740-9
Publication type
Article
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Published
Authors
Evgeny Bubnov 
Affiliation: Far Eastern Federal University
Address: Russian Federation
Edition
Issue 7
Pages
143-149
Abstract

The article discusses debates between M.O. Shakhov and G.D. Levin. The reason for the controversy is the thesis of inadmissibility of idealistic ideas in the present-day scientific paradigms. The author believes that the very statement of the questions the opponents are trying to answer is not correct. The present-day science does not need the idea of the God and asserts the necessity of the compliance with the principle of methodological atheism. However, the basis of the scientific activity of the Modern Time scholars was theological because the Christian theology contained postulates necessary for the natural science genesis. The theological arguments made theoretical speculations more socially acceptable and trustworthy. Now the confidence in the scientific knowledge objectivity is supported by the continuous coherence of the scientific experience but these arguments enable stating that a present-day scientist involuntarily becomes an empath sharing the epistemological optimism of his predecessors. Albert Einstein equalized epistemological optimism and the ‘cosmic religious feeling’ and believed that one of the functions of science consists in the transfer of this feeling from one person to another. Critical re-evaluation of this concept enables making a conclusion that the idealistic provisions are implicitly present in the modern scientific paradigms and they cannot be eliminated without rejecting the scientific activity. The results of Antonio Damasio’s studies are interpreted as an empirical evidence of the conclusions made.

Keywords
history of science, empathy, habitus, priming, theology, cosmic religious feeling
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28.07.2019
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28.07.2019
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