Borisov's approach to the study of reflection in scientific cognition

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The cognitive potential of rational philosophy is revealed in the analysis of the internal mechanisms of the development of scientific knowledge. The relevance of reflection research in science is determined by challenges from the dominant naturalistic and sociological trends. The classification of types of reflection proposed by V.N. Borisov is used in the analysis of various ways of substantiating science. The programs of substantiation of science by I. Kant and B. Russell are compared according to the types of reflexive procedures. Transcendental reflection refers the methods of physical cognition to philosophical metatheory. Scientific reflection reveals the methods of physics through psychological sciences. Different levels of reflection on cognitive procedures correspond to different relationships between scientific disciplines. The article substantiates the universality of classical rationality, the principles of the unity of scientific knowledge and the normative nature of philosophy in the development of natural science.

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Svetlana M. Kuskova

Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis

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Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Natural Sciences

Russian Federation, Moscow

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