The collection is devoted to the history of the seminar on epistemology and philosophy of science, which worked in the Novosibirsk Academgorodok in the 1960-1970s. under the leadership of M. A. Rozov. The theory of social relay races developed by M. A. Rozov arose in response to the question "what is knowledge?," Which was at the center of discussions at the seminar. Subsequently, this theory became the theoretical and methodological basis for the scientific analysis of all socio-cultural phenomena.