WAYS OF KNOWING SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND SELF-AWARNESS IN SCIENCES

摘要

As an introduction there shall be an overview of the following text that focuses on problems of different sciences and the ideas of philosophy of science to deal with them. There shall be an overview of the argumentation, the structure and the main parts. There are going to be three parts. In the first chapter the main problem that depicts the basis for the following argumentation shall be named and explained. It is a peculiar question in the field of philosophy of science, different to the usual ones, and focuses on the essential moment of self-understanding in scientific work. Starting from that question the main concept of knowing and knowledge in the Tradition of European thinking shall be mentioned as to characterize a way of knowing. After that it shall be discussed how this concept of knowledge appears in the different sciences and what problems occur in the scientific work in respect to knowledge.