Philosophy of Economics as a Task, or On the Issue of the Interdisciplinary Borderlands of the Humanities (Round Table Materials)

On June 24, 2024, a roundtable titled “Philosophy of Economics as a Task, or On the Issue of the Interdisciplinary Borderlands of the Humanities” was held in the “Voprosy filosofii”. It was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the estab­lishment of the Faculty of Humanities at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. This faculty includes the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, the School of Historical Sciences, the School of Philology, the School of Linguistics, and the Institute for Classical Eastern Studies and An­tiquity. The School of Foreign Languages is an associated division. The faculty’s goal is to prepare specialists with a broad base of humanities knowledge and the ability to effectively apply it in practical work. In addition to its educational activities, the faculty is actively engaged in research, guided by the philosophi­cal principle of interdisciplinarity. Philosophy provides the framework where a productive dialogue between economics and the humanities can take place. The roundtable addressed the following topics: How do contemporary humani­ties interact with economic research? The philosophy of economics in Russia: historical traditions of the philosophy of economy and the present. Interdisci­plinarity as a leading strategy in humanities research in economics. Is it produc­tive to explore humanitarian issues using economic conceptual and methodologi­cal tools? The epistemological productivity of the philosophy of economics as an interdisciplinary borderland for the humanities. The core focus of the partici­pants was the role of the philosopher in interdisciplinary research within the field of economics: is the philosopher a detached observer, recording the methodolo­gical issues of collaboration, or an expert who broadens the worldview horizons of social and humanitarian knowledge?