PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF A HYPOTHESIS ABOUT LOCAL FAST GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES
Vasiliy Anatolyevich Mironov1, Alexander Nikolaevich Sorokin2
1National Research Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin av., Tomsk, 634050, Russia
2Tyumen State University, 6, Volodarskiy st., Tyumen, 625003, Russia
Keywords: философия науки, философия геологии, быстропротекающие геологические процессы, верификация, нарратив, советская наука, Западная Сибирь, philosophy of science, philosophy of geology, fast geological processes, verification, narrative, Soviet science, West Siberia
Abstract
The article considers a hypothesis about rapid geological processes, which, according to the group of scientists, cause electromagnetic emission from rocks and the output of plasmoids (electromagnetic systems) to the Earth's surface. The hypothesis, developed at the end of the Soviet period by researchers from Tomsk, is a specific object of philosophical and methodological study not only in the field of general philosophy of science, but also in the field of philosophy of geology. It integrates results of laboratory research (registration of electromagnetic emissions from some rocks and minerals when heated), eyewitness field accounts and our own observations of electromagnetic systems in the atmosphere, as well as results of geological area studies. The main methodological problem of the hypothesis is the impossibility to prove accurately the direct cause-effect relationship among its three mentioned components. The purpose of the article is to analyze the possibility of using alternative methods of verification and legitimation for a considered hypothesis, and it is necessary to raise the question of the boundaries of scientific discourse as such in this regard.
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