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Philosophy of Sciences

2017 year, number 1

THE CHARACTERISTIC OF GEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF NARRATOLOGY

Vasiliy Anatolyevich Mironov
National Research Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin av., Tomsk, 634050, Russia
Keywords: геология, нарратив, теория познания, нарративные предложения, методология повествования, философия геологии, философия науки, geology, narrative, epistemology, narrative sentences, methodology of narration, philosophy of geology, philosophy of science

Abstract

The paper considers geological knowledge from the point of view of narration methodology developed initially for studying and constructing historical and literary texts. The consideration of geology, which is a natural-science discipline, from the perspective of humanitarian methodology enables to explain peculiarities of creation of geological theories about the past of our planet. In turn, such an explanation becomes a basis for solving the problem of the discrepancy of geological methods to criteria of experimental natural sciences. In addition, such an approach enables to define which information is important for geological knowledge and to define in what form the concepts of geological past are presented.