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This study dealt with a possible dual origin of scepsis as a platform for critical thinking, which is connected with the very substance of philosophical research. The original question was whether there is a В‘pure scepsisВ’ as a zero point, which various thinkers can get closer to or further from depending on a particular case, or whether there are approaches which, although based on scepsis, are mutually incommensurable. To answer this complex question, we used interpretation using the combination of a nomologic...

E.O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, presents in his work Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge from 1998 a conjecture that postmodernism as a principal line of thought at the end of the 20th century, which is inherent in the mainstream social sciences and humanities, closes the door to the unity of knowledge - the so-called consilience. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possibilities of the consilience of knowledge in humanities and natural and social sciences in the state of postmodern crisis of an...