PHILOSOPHY AND NATURAL KNOWLEDGE, THEIR RELATIONSHIP
The problem of the interaction of philosophy and natural science, the need for their union based on the processes of interpenetration, integration and differentiation of sciences, as well as the use of a complex of philosophical and particular scientific methodological means in the cognitive process is considered. In the aspect of the unity of the historical and the logical, various concepts of the relationship between philosophy and natural science are presented. Philosophy in relation to natural sciences performs the function of methodology and worldview interpretation of research results, directly participates in the formation of scientific pictures of the world, in the conditions of post-non-classical science formulates the value attitudes of the process of scientific research and evaluation from the results. Natural science, in turn, is a source of philosophical problems, provides evidence and scientific character of philosophical concepts, concretizes the abstract provisions of philosophy and participates in complex processes of understanding and explaining philosophical texts. Thus, the interaction of philosophy and natural science is an organic complex of many different essential relationships.