Combinatorial review of the philosophical methods and a В«methodological sieve». New explanatory procedures within the course В«History and philosophy of science»
A. V. Makulin
Northern State Medical University, 51 Troitsky Ave., Arkhangelsk, Russia, 163000
Keywords: методологическое решето, перекрестная философская методология, вероятностные и несуществующие философские методы, methodological sieve, cross-philosophical methodology, probabilistic and non-existent philosophical methods
Abstract
The article is devoted to defining of the actual incompleteness of the «cross-philosophical methodology», as well as tracking the use of methodological «crosses» in domestic and foreign (English) tradition. Combinatorial eschatologism, claimed as a way of identifying the methodological syntheses, in no way preclude further completing of the author's proposed taxonomy table, because it is not invariant. In his article, the author tries to understand the usefulness of the application of combinatorics to the problems of methodological combinations in the philosophy that effectively overcome the postmodern eclecticism, often involves a rejection of the search for rigorous solutions. The article analyzes historically methodological combinations and the conclusion about the need to expand the number of methodological variations for solving urgent problems of philosophical multiscreen knowledge. The analysis of scientific and philosophical literature demonstrates that methodological variations are used not only in classical philosophical practice as methods of cognition, but also as markers for the critical evaluation of some philosophical schools themselves and each other; methodological «crossing», probably because of heuristic redundancy, often go beyond the purely philosophical perspective, as for example, the economic, pedagogical and Western theological thought actively borrows methodological crossing for their needs. A combinatorial table, which the author proposes to call «methodological sieve (partly using the metaphor of William James) is a convenient way to build a unified picture of the methodological intersections. This tool allows effectively exhausting the possible intersections without worrying about missing some of them. The main purpose of this article is to reconstruct those synthetic methodological concepts, without the clarification of which the modern philosophical methodology cannot be considered complete and logically justified. In the conditions of permanent growth of information flows, the ability of the student to quickly recognize the methodological principles with further study, classification and application are of particular importance. In accordance with the requirements of saving the study time, this matrix can be used in the teaching of philosophical methodology to graduate students in the course «History and philosophy of science». In this context, the function of combinatorial philosophy will be to clearly and succinctly clarify the methodological difficulties, and to inform graduate students about the variable set of philosophical cognition methods, their meaning and importance for the theory of knowledge.
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