Bulavina T. Communication in the sciences: the problem of identity

The object of study - is communication in the modern sciences. The objective of study is description of multiplicity of communicative relations. Comparative, system-evolutional, structure-functional, concrete-historical and case-studies methods have been used. The dissertation is devoted to make a philosophical analysis of the dynamics of communicative relations in the science and to manifest the phenomenon of identity in these relations. The role of identity in the procedures of the science criti- cism was studied. It was proven that there are five types of communicative relation in the different phases of the theories' development. Four forms of science criticism were also discerned. From the point of view of non-classical ideal of rationality the peculiarities of gender, feminist, women's studies and its critical functions were analyzed.