Science: Conceptualization and demarcation in relation to philosophy and Humanitarianism

The author discusses the problem of the demarcation of science in relation to philosophy and humanitarianism. Examples of claims to the scientific status of the authors of esoteric teachings are also given (Swedenborg, R. Steiner, M. Lightman) and the negative reaction of I. Kant to them. The general and different characteristics of science and philosophy are analyzed: ideal objects are built there and cognition is carried out, but with different goals and in different ways. The problem of positing objects of the humanities is discussed, in connection with which the following series is established: virtual object → becoming → real → possible object. Since Swedenborg and the followers of his teachings lived and thought in accordance with his teachings, they could not help but have a consciousness and a life world that corresponded to this teaching. Consequently, a corresponding possible object was formed, in relation to which Swedenborg's teaching acted as a kind of semiotic model. The author believes that the non‒differentiation of natural sciences and humanities and new hybrid types of research, for example, interdisciplinary or social, in which two methodologies are implemented simultaneously - natural science and humanities, have created a situation where it is difficult to establish the epistemological status of many disciplines applying for science.

science, philosophy, humanities, nature, ideal objects, mind, mathematics, experiment, discipline, object