Social sciences: calculation or hermeneutics?

Abstract

Critical analysis of cognitive claims to universal calculating social science’s formation has been presented in this paper. It has clearly been argued, that originated in G. Leibnitz’s metaphor: “intellection is calculation”, this idea even in its further development does not have any sufficient methodological foundation for its wider extrapolation upon the scope of social organization. It might only be accepted by means of natural reductionism, which implicates elimination of social subject matters’ meaningful dimension, obviously regarded as constitutive for culture and sociality. This implies in its turn bringing down the role of philosophy to topology and digital analysis and theoretical elimination of both human and his meanings of being from socio-cultural reality.