UDC

165.62:001.1

Authors

Nadezda V. Bryanik
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin;
prosp. Lenina 51, Yekaterinburg, 620000, Sverdlovskaya obl., Russian Federation;
e-mail: vastas07@mail.ru

Abstract

This work aimed to create a methodology for finding the meaning of science in the context of its crisis and revolution. The empirical basis for this article is the reconstruction of E. Husserl’s ideas closely linked to the problems of contemporary philosophy of science, with history of science becoming the dominant trend. According to Husserl, the essence of science can be revealed by turning to its meaning, which he discloses by establishing interdependences between the world of science and the life-world generating it. From these positions, Husserl does not distinguish between classical and non-classical science, as they are products of one and the same life-world. His approach is special because he studies the origin of science and turns to its roots. Husserl examines the origin of geometry as a theoretical and demonstrative form of scientific knowledge in ancient culture, as well as the emergence of mathematical natural science in the modern era. On this basis, he formulates the principle of historical a priori, which he attributes to the scientific tradition. The mathematization of nature, resting on facts, has formed the idea of objective nature. At the same time, this was the process of losing the meaning for life by science, which, according to Husserl, is the crisis of science. He asserts the importance of philosophical generalizations in theoretical studies of specific sciences. Husserl’s point of view is confirmed by the formation of the principles of post-non-classical worldview. In fact, its principle of evolution as selforganization leads to a new philosophical interpretation of the essence of scientific laws.

Keywords

E. Husserl, philosophy of science, history of science, meaning of science, post-non-classical science, life-world, historical a priori

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