METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: SIMILARITIES, DIFFERENCES, INRICHMENT

Abstract

The article presents the excursion of formation and phased development the methodology of scientific knowledge as a science, in close cooperation with the scientific philosophy: its status, functions, similarities and differences in their methodological significance. It is rivaled the influence of philosophy, logic, science and scientific knowledge on the further development of the methodology as a science. Stages and the concept of its formation and development are regarded and comparative analysis of the object, method, structure and function of philosophy and methodology of science light up their role as a factor of mutual interpenetration. Discussions on these issues are going on till nowdays for benefit of these sciences and their application in the implementation of the theoretical, empirical and applied research.