Is scientific research in itself amenable to some value grading or it acquires axiological properties only through engaging in the context of production and social practice? Are fruits of science of absolute worth, or happen among them also such ones which may be named anti-values? How the goods research brings correlate with the “price” being paid for them and what is its axiological weight?
- Stating the problem
- The motives of scientific research
- Scientific and technological progress: A revaluation of values
- The value and price of scientific research
- Instead of conclusion: Values in the dynamics of the search for truth