О НАУЧНОЙ ШКОЛЕ ИСТОЧНИКОВЕДЕНИЯ: ИНОЙ ВЗГЛЯД
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL SOURCE STUDIES: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW

Summary/Abstract: The author deconstructs the constituting of the scientifi c school of source studies in the texts ofM. F. Rumyantseva, showing how the internalist approach to the study of scientifi c cognition determines this process.The use of typologies that summarize the “essential” characteristics of the change in scientifi c rationality allowsM. F. Rumyantseva to place this school within the “mainstream” of the historical epistemology development over thepast century. At the same time, the classifi cation method she uses does not add any new knowledge about the scientifi cschool phenomenon, but only leads to its renaming using the name of the class to which this phenomenon belongs.Accordingly, the basic element of the school remains unchanged, since the object of source studies becomes defi nedat the starting point. Ignoring the externalist approach allows M. F. Rumyantseva to bypass such inconvenient but importantproblems as the specifi cs of humanitarian knowledge (including the historical one); pragmatic conditionality ofthe researcher’s activity; changing the role of theory in research; the value of non-source knowledge in the study of thepast; historicization of both the actors of the past and those who explore it. Taking those problems into account wouldmake it possible to avoid the absolutization of the truth of the fundamental idea of the scientifi c school about the objectof source studies, which requires concretization and, therefore, relativization.

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