Study Of Science And Culture In The Context Of Philosophy Of Science

Science culture is a modality of culture, occupying core position in the social culture system of human beings. With the development of science and its influence to the society, people are emphasizing science, advocating it and even raising it consciously. So, science have different meanings in different contexts. In Snow's text, science culture is almost equal to the scientists' culture and is against to culture of human. In Habermas's words, science culture is a kind of ideology. In philosophy of science context, science culture manifests a kind attitude of philosophers, as well as, theoretical atmosphere and development tendency. We can say that philosophy of science is closely related to science culture. The latter not only is the background of the exertion of the former, but also is its development driving forces and orientation. In essence, science culture is an attitude of people treating science and also a kind of values. It will tends to reach perfection through continual seeking in scientific philosophers' theories.