The Transcendental Method and Physical Cosmology: an Interdisciplinary Approach in the Research of Ukrainian and Anglo-American Philosophers

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by Sergii Rudenko1 and Yaroslav Sobolievskyi2
1 Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology (Maoming, Guangdong Province, China), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/23/15
Received: April 6, 2019 / Accepted: May 24, 2019 / Published: October 10, 2019

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Abstract

In modern science, an important feature is a fact that interdisciplinary research is becoming more popular. This is due to the mutual interest of different areas of science to the methods and principles of other areas. The article is devoted to the study of the possibility of dialogue between physical cosmology and transcendental philosophy. Transcendental philosophy provides an interesting look at the problem of subject-object relations in which the object depends on the observer. The possibility of science using a specific transcendental method in the field of astrophysics has been studied. This possibility is due to the specifics of astronomical objects that exist for the observer as phenomena that do not correspond to reality in time and space. The article emphasizes the conventional concept of realism in modern science. The interdisciplinary dialogue of American and Ukrainian philosophical cosmology with its methods and physical cosmology with its objects promotes mutual development.

Keywords: the history of philosophy, transcendental method, physical cosmology, philosophical cosmology

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Rudenko, Sergii and Yaroslav Sobolievskyi (2019) The Transcendental Method and Physical Cosmology: an Interdisciplinary Approach in the Research of Ukrainian and Anglo-American Philosophers. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 23, 157-167. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/23/15
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