Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The cognitive strategies currently prevailing in modern science are in urgent need of expansion and modernization.The holistic cognitive strategies proposed in this article have the potential to significantly broaden the epistemological methodology and thereby elevate science to a qualitatively new level of development.The aim of this article is to analyze the methodological problems of contemporary holistic epistemology and the potential of its cognitive strategies in forming an integral picture of reality. Methods of research.The leading method in uncovering the specific nature of holistic cognitive strategies is the method of eidetic dialectics, utilizing the principle of the unity of ontology, epistemology, and anthropology.The scientific novelty.The scientific novelty lies in the problem of methodological analysis and consideration of holistic strategies of cognition, which have not yet been studied in modern philosophy.Conclusion.The modern era, with its immense achievements of scientific reason embodied in a myriad of technical and technological means, requires the restoration of traditional norms and values, which are capable of softening its internal contradictions.To this end, philosophical inquiry into human existence and being must be conducted from epistemological positions that do not exclude traditional norms and values from the cognitive domain simply because they are not subject to formal logical analysis rather, they must be accepted as paradigmatic foundations of the cognitive system.Socio-ethical and humanitarian issues must not be considered as secondary or auxiliary to the pursuit of truth, but as necessary conditions for the effective transmission and realization of that truth.In this context arises an entire spectrum of issues related to the epistemological positions of both fragmentary and holistic strategies of cognition -strategies that actively shape corresponding worldviews.We cannot force the majority to think differently from how they are accustomed to thinking.But we can implement holistic cognitive strategies into our own practice of knowing thereby enhancing both the efficacy of our work and the quality of our lives.The necessity of applying holistic strategies in modern science and in the philosophy of knowledge is dictated by several factors:-First, both scientific and philosophical knowledge by definition strive to provide the most adequate picture of being, pointing to its primal foundation.This goal cannot be achieved by relying solely on the methodology of formal logic, reductionism, rationalism, and merism.-Second, being in its irrational manifestations, when analyzed strictly within the methodology of «classical» philosophy and detached from the insights of other forms of knowledge, loses its meaning for it ceases to adequately reflect the picture of reality.-Finally, holistic strategies of cognition help form an integral worldview and holistic understanding of the world, which in turn encourages a more adequate relationship of the human being both to themselves and to the surrounding world.And this is an essential condition for the successful adaptation of any individual to the fast-changing rhythms of modern life.
Author: T. M. Poplavska
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410805682