RESEARCH OF PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF NATURAL SCIENCE BY SCIENTISTS OF THE KYIV OUTLOOK-EPISTEMOLOGICAL SCHOOL DURING 60-70’S OF THE XXTH CENTURY
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Turenko Vitalii , Moskalchuk Maryna ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Yarmolitska Nataliia ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: May 2022

This study analyzes the focal points of research on philosophical problems of natural science carried out by Soviet philosophers of the Kyiv outlook-epistemological school in the 60-70’s of the XXth century. The main emphasis is on current issues of research of the Kyiv philosophical tradition, as well as outlines and clarifies the specifics of the Kyiv Philosophical School of this period to reproduce a holistic picture of the development of Ukrainian philosophical and scientific knowledge. In particular, the peculiarities of explication of philosophical and methodological problems of biology, physics, cybernetics, mathematics, chemistry, cosmogony, astronomy and geology are studied, as well as the interaction of natural sciences and humanities in solving complex problems of complex human measurement systems is traced. The basis of this study was the issue of the journal «Philosophical Problems of Modern Science», which actively published the works of philosophers founded in 1964 N.T. Kostyuk scientific school «Philosophy of Science», as well as naturalists from all over the USSR. At that time these were quite decisive studies, which attempted the creative development of dialectical materialism, based on the latest achievements of natural science, attempts to move away from the theoretical and methodological doctrine of Marxism-Leninism, contrasting the development of philosophical problems of science, epistemology, methodological issues for scientific knowledge. this a certain revolution in philosophical research. The methodological basis of this study were: specific historical, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches, which involve the integrated use of methodological principles of historical and philosophical, scientific research and conceptual generalizations, modern methodological standards and prescriptions in philosophical and natural sciences, structural and functional content analysis. The method of bibliometric analysis was also used to determine the development, evolution and features of scientific research, to identify real problems raised by Kyiv Soviet philosophers and naturalists. The purpose of the authors of this study is to analyze the dynamics of development and change of research topics of Kyiv philosophers to trace how the Kyiv worldview and epistemological school developed, what problems were raised and studied by scientists of this school in the Soviet period. Such a study makes it possible to understand what Ukrainian scientists fed and worked on during the existence of the totalitarian and communist regimes in the USSR. Will help to reconstruct the scientific picture, showing the real situation with the status, nature and functions in the systems of contemporary science and education in the USSR in the field of philosophical and scientific research, will help reveal the practical significance of scientific research of philosophers, physicists, mathematicians, biologists, sociologists scientific-theoretical and methodological achievements of Kyiv scientists. To show how the value ideological and humanistic worldview of the representatives of the Kyiv worldview-epistemological school influenced the formation of the spiritual philosophical and natural-scientific culture of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras.