@article {13494,
	title = {{\v C}ern{\'\i}kov projekt metodol{\'o}gie vied: teoretick{\'a} retrospekt{\'\i}va},
	journal = {Filozofia},
	volume = {77},
	number = {8},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {575 - 589},
	type = {State},
	abstract = {V{\'a}clav {\v C}ern{\'\i}k (1931 {\textendash} 2017) was one of the founders of modern philosophy of science in Slovakia. This paper focuses on his lifelong project of founding a Marxist methodology of science based on a reconstruction of Marx{\textquoteright}s Capital. The project had three main pillars: (1) a theory of a new type of scientific law, (2) dialectics as a theory of philosophical categories, and (3) a historical account of types of rationality. In the paper, we contextualize the various stages of the project: from {\v C}ern{\'\i}k{\textquoteright}s early works on scientific laws and thought experiments to his attempt at constructing a system of categories, as well as publications in methodology after 1989. Our critical assessment shows that {\v C}ern{\'\i}k was the first to deal with certain topics in the Slovak context. His approach also had certain advantages vis-{\`a}-vis with other attempts at the time, especially due to the author{\textquoteright}s open-minded attitude to modern logic and Western philosophy of science. On the other hand, the project was never finished and it left a number of characteristic problems unsolved (e.g., the nature of dialectical contradictions, difficulties with using logical instruments to formulate philosophical intuitions).},
	keywords = {Dialectics, Explanation, Marxism, Methodology of science, V{\'a}clav {\v C}ern{\'\i}k},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2022.77.8.1},
	url = {https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/10211026filozofia.2022.77.8.1.pdf},
	author = {Halas, Juraj}
}
