THE PROBLEMS OF DISCIPLINARY RELATIONS ON THE EXAMPLE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE

Abstract

A high degree of disciplinary differentiation is generally evaluated as progress in improving the understanding of the dynamics of reality, but with the often-present dilemma of whether the establishment of new academic disciplines is always correct and necessary. In connection with this, the question of the justification of the strict autonomy of disciplines is being brought up to date, including attempts to assess the expediency, form and permissible degree of the intersection of ideas in the scientific space. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to attempt, through a review of relevant viewpoints, to identify key criteria for the demarcation of scientific disciplines, and to attempt to offer an answer to the question of whether their application is equally relevant in all scientific fields. Proceeding from the fact that research processes in modern science are necessarily characterised by knowledge intersection between disciplines, part of the paper is devoted to different points of view on the status of economic science within the wider corpus of social sciences. In this regard, an attempt was made to assess, based on the confrontation of different views and arguments, whether combining the content of economics and other social disciplines is an example of an acceptable degree of openness for multidisciplinary contributions, or whether it is a trend that dominantly depicts various aspects of unjustified expansionist intrusions into ‘non-native’ domains of research.