REFLECTION IN SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY AND HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF ARGUMENTATION

In this paper we consider an interaction between the reflection in the scientific activity and the scientific habitus. We claim that the ultimate goal of scientific activity consists in the desire to affect the scientific behavior of other scientists. As a rule, this means that scientific results are recognized more or less fundamental and depending on the fact that they determine scientific interests of the whole community of scientists. Accordingly, the scientific activity, which has entailed a serious discovery or invention, becomes a standard for the research behavior of the majority of members of scientific community. As a result, the given discovery or invention becomes the important part of scientific habitus (the embodied, interiorized social structure in scientific activity). The reflection in the scientific activity is a human ability that allows us to oppose the scientific habitus and not to subordinate the logical level of scientific argumentation to the dialectical level and the latter to the rhetorical level of scientific argumentation.