Scientism crisis: causes and consequences

Skopa V. A.

The article analyzes the ideological position, which is based on the idea of scientific knowledge as the highest cultural value and a determining factor in a person's orientation in the world. On the basis of fundamental works on the philosophy of scientific knowledge, the crisis of scientism is determined, the reasons for its occurrence and consequences are determined. On the basis of V. V. Kazyutinsky's research, the factors that contributed to the weakening of the scientistic worldview orientation are identified, which he combined into three groups: epistemological, philosophical-anthropological and sociocultural. It has been determined that modern science forms a diversifying idea of scientific and technological progress, its role and significance in the conditions of a modern post-industrial society, and this pushes scientists to the opportunity to talk about the emergence of the next ideological crisis of civilization.

Keywords:scientism, scientific and technological revolution, paradigm, postmodernism, worldview.