SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS WITHOUT INCOMMENSURABILITY
Thomas Kuhn’s viewpoint tells that scientific revolutions and the new paradigms cannot be understood without incommensurability. It me-ans radical conceptual novations and disruption with the previous tradition of thinking. However, incommensurability does not possess the only shared treatment. Besides its status as a neces-sary attribute of scientific revolutions is not firmly supported. Philosophy of Kuhn inspired social studies of scientific cognition, which bloomed in postpositivism, sociology of knowledge, STS and social epistemology. He not only laid the foundations for scientific revolution theory, but also developed sociology of science justifying formation mechanisms for scientific beliefs. For Kuhn, scientific revolutions are an objective phase in know-ledge history, when creative development begins and the subsequent paradigm emerges. The author rejects objectivity of scientific revolutions in the Kuhnian sense and strengths their social interpretation, which explains the proliferation of criteria in evaluation of scientific discoveries. Scientific revolutions not only describe the logic and history of scientific thinking, but actually they prescribe imperatives and principles for science organization. In such a sense, they function as a pragmatic idea, a signal superstructure over cognitive practice, allowing to distribute recognition, attention, respect and other assets among actors engaged in cognition and intellectual work. The final part of the article clears up what kind of goals can be pursued by discourse over scientific revolutions.