Volume 46, Issue 4, 2015
Nadezhda Kasavina
Pages 128-144
On Humanization of Science and Naturalization of Existence
Social philosophy of science focuses on the natural as well as on the social-humanitarian sciences as a subject matter of research. It is due to post-classic research paradigm because almost since their emergence in the second half of the XIX c. the social and human sciences have moved beyond the classics. Already under the influence of philosophy of life and philosophical hermeneutics there occurred new existential issues and the need to revisit the central concepts of the classical theory of knowledge including the concept of experience. From now on not only the object-oriented sensibility, but the subjectivity of experience, involvement in tradition with its cultural universals entered the structure of cognitive experience. In the article the author interprets these changes not only as a manifestation of specificity of the social and human sciences, but also as a trait of cognition in general. To rethink the existence in the social and humanities there proposed to use the term «naturalization of existence» with reference to a similar trend in analytic epistemology and the philosophy of mind.