The Place of historical Science in the System of contemporary Knowledge
The problem of the place of historical science in the structure of modern knowledge is connected with ideas of leaders of contemporary synergetic I. Prigogine and K. Mainzer. The scientists substantiate the presence in contemporary science of tendency to rapprochement of natural and historical knowledge. The author intends to analyse the multiplicity of links between history and other sciences. From the viewpoint of author the influence of history on the contemporary science consists in the great role in framework of contemporary post-non-classical paradigm of narrativism, detailism, plurality, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. The author believes that the concept of transdisciplinarity is the enlargement of historical comparative interpretation. The influence of contemporary post-non-classical paradigm on historical knowledge consists in the application of mathematic in historical researches. The article shows the specific features of application of statistic and differential equations and analyses the great role of induction on historical studies. It pays attention to the problem of specific role of theoretical and phenomenological levels of historical science. The author takes in account the role of ideas of constructivism in historical studies. She aims to study the role and limits of application of synergetic in historical researches and examines the role of temporality in the historical knowledge. The author turns to her personal scientific practice and illustrates the features of historical study on the examples of byzantine history. The article stresses the strategies of positivism and post-positivism in the estimation of the role of historical investigations in the system of contemporary knowledge. Its focus is on the role of linguistic and psychological research methods.