SCIENTIFIC COGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN CULTURE
He paper deals with the issue of scientific cognition dynamics in conditions of modern culture. The author pays special attention to the structural aspect of scientific knowledge, underlining issues of interconnection between epistemological and methodological structures of scientific knowledge and such communicative aspects of human activity as objective-practical and instrumental-operational ones. The socio-cultural basis transforms to spectra of operational creative means of knowledge activity and realize in different stages and forms of cognition which are conceptual and categorical representation of an object, processes of interpretation and understanding. Analyzing different methodological concepts of scientific philosophy (for instance classical, new-positivistic,postmodern and etc.), the author describes modern view on the nature of scientific knowledge related to the issues of modern subjective-objective aspect as the basic epistemological structure of cognitive process. The article contains research of metatheoretic scientific level as a kind of epistemic phenomenon which expresses its paradigm features influencing different forms and levels of scientific knowledge, formation of subjective and objective part of science, its practical basis, as well as ways of conceptual and essential perception of the reality.