ON RESPONSIBILITY OF RESEARCHER WITHIN THE GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS: WERNER HEISENBERG’S IDEAS AND CONTEMPORANEITY

The article considers the question of responsibility of a researcher for the subsequences of scientific and technical progress. Reference to the philosophical understanding of this problem undertaken by famous German scientist of the XX century Werner Heisenberg seems to be fruitful. Ideas about answering the question of responsibility for the elaboration and the use of nuclear weapon in the middle of the XX century are extrapolated on the contemporary situation within the context of clarifying of scientists’ role in political decision-making. As the result of complex analysis of the contemporary situation, in which the questions of security come to the fore, it is substantiated that holistic and multidimensional approach to collaboration of scientists, teachers, social organizations and political actors may direct scientific and technical progress to the better.

responsibility of researcher, scientific and technical progress, philosophy of science, Werner Heisenberg, role of scientist in politics, security