Is Science Worth of a Humanist Project? A Reply to My Opponents

The article analyzes, evaluates and comments on the ideas and arguments for and against the concept of science as a humanistic project proposed in the monograph with the same name. A number of authors support such ideas of the book as the defining role of informal communication in science, metaphysical origins of scientific solidarity and ethos, the embedding of the migration archetype in the scientific vocation, the prospects of science as a social agent, and the non-classical understanding of humanism. The article explicates and summarizes certain objections proposed by the opponents, according to which the book sets out a normative-utopian concept of science, exaggerating the influence of metaphysics on scientific activity, idealizing the solidarity of the scientific community and the moral qualities of scientists. The response to opponents explains the ideas of the book, formulates additional arguments in favor of their consistency, and also provides counter-arguments against a number of critical remarks.

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