Journals →  Gornyi Zhurnal →  2022 →  #11 →  Back

TRAINING OF PERSONNEL
ArticleName Technoscience, education and philosophy
DOI 10.17580/gzh.2022.11.13
ArticleAuthor Mikeshin M. I.
ArticleAuthorData

Saint-Petersburg Mining University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia:

M. I. Mikeshin, Research Director of the Problem Lab of Social Sciences and Humanities, Doctor of Philosophy, mikeshin_mi@pers.spmi.ru

Abstract

The third article from the cycle devoted to the interaction of technoscience and philosophy discusses modern problems of technical education. It is noted that education does not meet the needs of technoscience. This is due to the contradictory requirements of the professional environment and the peculiarities of the educational environment. It is important that engineering activity in the twentieth century has been interpreted as an applied s cience that has no values other than its own scientific values. This understanding is outdated today, as is the reduction of science to scientific knowledge. The peculiarities of the existence of technoscience and education in Russia include their statism, i. e. the need to set up relations with the state and take them into account in understanding one’s activities. All global decisions are made by the state, it also determines the structure, content and goals of education. Being ubiquitous, the state also spreads its methods of planning and management, its model of “doubling” the world with documents. In particular, technoscience education is understood as teaching the rules of “normal” (in T. Kuhn’s terminology) science with its strict rules enshrined in government regulations and plans. This approach is reflected in the structure and content of textbooks, training courses for undergraduates and graduate students. The philosophical and methodological education of humanities teachers does not give them any idea of modern technoscience, and their training courses do not allow them to professionally discuss the pressing problems of science. On the one hand, technoscientists are seriously concerned about the “philosophical” and “social” problems of science: what is their science, how it works, how it changes, why its unity is lost, how it “fits” into society and how it interacts with it. On the other hand, young university graduates entering technoscience have no idea about such problems, because they were educated in an outdated paradigm. A special problem is the activity of the mass media and social networks, which are increasingly influencing the system of science, the processes of obtaining knowledge and its application. Most of the young technoscientists are not ready to use these indicators of public sentiment and tools of influence. Technoscience today is not able to understand itself, be taught, control and develop itself. Radical innovative approaches are needed.
The author thanks S. А. Vorobev and A. А. Vorobyev for the seminal discussion of the problems mentioned in the paper and in the whole series of papers dedicated to interactions of technoscience and philosophy of science.

keywords Technoscience, education, philosophy of science, statism, normal science, mass media, social networks
References

1. Mikeshin M. I. What is modern philosophy of technoscience capable of? Gornyi Zhurnal. 2021. No. 8. pp. 8–13. DOI: 10.17580/gzh.2021.08.02
2. Mikeshin M. I. How can technoscience and philosophy interact? Gornyi Zhurnal. 2020. No. 7. pp. 18–22. DOI: 10.17580/gzh.2020.07.03
3. Vishlenkova E. A., Saveleva I. M. (Eds.). Social class of Russian professors. Creators of statuses and senses. Moscow : Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki, 2013. 386 p.
4. Gerasimova I. A. (Ed.). Problems and risks of engineering educations in the 21st century. Moscow : Universitetskaya kniga, 2017. 312 p.
5. Vorobev S. A., Vorobyev A. A. Science reproductive outline and scientific knowledge in information space. Work experience of the Technical Council for Geomechanics. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2022. No. 4. pp. 74–85. DOI: 10.17580/gzh.2022.04.12
6. Koteneva A. V., Chelyshev P. V. Psychological resistance of mining students to stress factors. Eurasian Mining. 2020. No. 1. pp. 84–88. DOI: 10.17580/em.2020.01.17
7. Mitcham C., Kazakova A. A. Let Us Now Think Engineering: An Interview with Carl Mitcham. Philosophy of Science and Technology. 2020. Vol. 25, No. 2. pp. 26–36.
8. Mitcham C. The importance of philosophy to engineering. Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy. 1998. Vol. 17, No. 3. pp. 27–47.
9. Haraway D. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. 1988. Vol. 14, No. 3. pp. 575–599.
10. Technology and Innovation Report 2015: Fostering Innovation Policies for Industrial Development. United Nations, 2015. 142 p.
11. Shapiro I. The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005. 232 p.
12. Code of the Federal State-Financed Higher Education Institution of the Saint-Petersburg Mining University. Approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Order No. 979 dated 16 November 2018. Available at: https://www.spmi.ru/sites/default/files/imci_images/univer/document/2018/Устав%202018.pdf (accessed: 10.08.2022).
13. Code of the Federal State-Financed Higher Education Institution of the Ural State Mining University. Approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Order No. 1243 dated 24 December 2018. Available at: https://www.ursmu.ru/upload/doc/2019/01/29/Ustav_24.12.2018_2.pdf (accessed: 10.08.2022).
14. Code of the Federal State-Financed Higher Education Institution of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University). Approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Order No. 91 dated 4 March 2019. Available at: https://www.gubkin.ru/sveden/document/Ustav_04.03.2019.pdf (accessed: 10.08.2022).
15. McAfee A., Brynjolfsson E. Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. New York : Norton & Company, 2017. 416 p.
16. Kuhn T. S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970. 210 p.
17. Training activity. Saint-Petersburg Mining University, 2022. Available at: https://www.spmi.ru/ucebnaa-deatelnost-30 (accessed: 10.08.2022).
18. Discipline B Б 1.04: Frameworks for Experimental Research, Organization and Planning : Work Program. Krasnodar : KubGTU, 2019. 10 p.
19. Philosophy of Science : International Program. Saint-Petersburg Mining University, 2022. Available at: https://spmi.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-programma-filosofiya-nauki (accessed: 10.08.2022).
20. Baklashov I. V. Geomechanics : Textbook. Moscow : Izdatelstvo MGGU, 2004. Vol. 1. Basis of geomechanics. 208 p.
21. Pevzner M. E., Iofis M. A., Popov V. N. Geomechanics : Textbook. 2nd ed. Moscow : Izdatelstvo MGGU, 2008. 438 p.
22. Borovkov Yu. A. Geomechanics : Textbook. Moscow : Lan, 2020. 365 p.
23. Boyko S. A., Koltsova E. A., Spiridonova V. A. Application of a Corpus-Based Approach in Teaching English for Specific Purposes to Master’s Degree Students of Engineering and Technical Majors. Global Journal of Engineering Education. 2022. Vol. 24, No. 1. pp. 40–45.
24. Koltsova E. A., Boyko S. A. Flipped Classroom Approach in Language Classes for Oil and Gas Engineering Master Students. Integration of Engineering Education and the Humanities: Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. 2022. No. 449. pp. 207–215. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11435-9_22.
25. Gerasimova I. G., Pushmina S. A., Carter E. V. A Fresh Look at Blended Learning: Boosting Motivation and Language Acquisition in an ESP Course for Engineering Students. Global Journal of Engineering Education. 2022. Vol. 24, No. 1. pp. 52–58.
26. Schwartz M. A. The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science. 2008. Vol. 121, Iss. 11. p. 1771.
27. Gregoire C. The Unexpected Way Philosophy Majors Are Changing The World Of Business. 2017. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-philosophy-majors-rule_n_4891404 (accessed: 10.08.2022).
28. Feyerabend P. Methodology of science : Russian translation from English and German. Moscow : Progress, 1986. 542 p.
29. Gorokhov V. Transdisciplinarity of Nanotechnoscience. Transdisciplinarity in Philosophy and Science: Approaches, Problems, Prospects. Moscow : Navigator, 2015. pp. 510–525.

Full content Technoscience, education and philosophy
Back