Epistemic Injustice

In the article I consider models of science-society communication in the context of epistemic injustice and communication within sciences. In the first part, I focus on two approaches: (1) historical epistemology and (2) the concept of citizen science. Fiirst presupposes the fundamental isolation of scientific communication on itself, therefore the process of dialogue with society is built on the principle of recruiting scientific personnel and screening out those who are not ready to work in the “city of scientists”. The second approach, on the contrary, involves the use of non-scientist labor for scientific research and practice without their inclusion in institutional scientific structures. Then I address the specifics of humanitarian knowledge and its role in solving communication problems in both science-society communication and scientific communication. In the conclusion, using the example of progressive attitudes towards philosophical knowledge and justifications for the possibility of progress in philosophy, I show that without resolution and/or explanation of intra- and interdisciplinary disagreements, communication models of science and society, no matter how complex they may be, are doomed to failure.