Geography as a Basic Science
https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869607120020081
Abstract
The article provides arguments in favor of the fact that geography is a fundamental science. They are as follows. The main method of research, which has no analogues in other fundamental sciences, is travel. The map is an absolutely unique language in which the results of geographical research are presented. In the epistemological sense, geography has the status of a natural-humanitarian science. Its discourse and paradigms cannot be reduced to either natural (including exact) or social sciences, they are completely original. Among the fundamental sciences, geography is located between history and biology. In geography, the possibilities of precise symbolic (mathematical) formalizations in heuristic and practical terms reach their limit. The subject of research and methods of geography can be partially formalized, partially can not be formalized in principle. And this is a distinctive feature of geography. The ontological specificity of geography as a fundamental science is due to the fact that the main object of study is the landscape. These theses are supported by a corresponding philosophical and methodological justification.
About the Author
Yu. G. Tyutyunnik
Institute of evolutional ecology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine
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Tyutyunnik Yu.G. Geography as a Basic Science. Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society. 2020;152(2):87-100. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869607120020081
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