Knowledge' concepts in the knowledge society and in technoscience

The paper is focused on the evolution of scientific knowledge interpretation in different concepts of knowledge production. To that end the comparative analysis of "knowledge" concept in knowledge society and in technoscience is done. Both conceptions significantly change the function of the knowledge, since it is shown as constituting element in the structure of the social reality. The reality studied by social epistemology and technoscience is more polydimensional. It is described not with fundamentalists' position based on the subject-object dualism, but using functionalist ideology. Functional relations form independent theoretical frame for research of complex selfdeveloping systems of the various nature. In light of this approach the fears of loss of fundamental research significance as a result of technoscience development are not reasonable. Moreover the character of the scientific cognition is changed. Scientific knowledge is still directed at truth, but at the same time it found new dimensions. "Knowledge" in nonclassical epistemology acquired not only gnoseological, but ontological and ethical dimensions.

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