Are there limits to the methodological convergence of natural-scientific and social-humanitarian knowledge?

Discussion

Abstract

The prospects of various interdisciplinary researches, the problem of the unity of scientific knowledge, the possibility of translating methods from one discipline to another, the impact of digitalization on various fields of scientific knowledge, the acceptability of general ap­proaches to science management, in particular, to the evaluation of scientific productivity are debated in the discussion on the limits of methodological convergence of natural-scien­tific and social-humanitarian knowledge. The debaters E.N. Knyazeva, G.L. Tulchinsky, V.G. Kuznetsov and N.M. Smirnova comment on each other’s positions, point out the strengths and weaknesses in proponents’ justification, agree on a number of issues, and indi­cate the main theses and arguments for each position, groping for prospects for further de­velopment of the discussed issues.