The Interdisciplinary Relationships of Semiotics of Law and Cosmology: on the Question about the Ontological Status of Law

Abstract

In the article the system of interdisciplinary relationships of Semiotics of Law as a branch of researches and autonomous science with complex of philosophical, legal and other humanities disciplines is determined and expanded. In particular, the thesis deals as with the different relations of Semiotics of Law with such disciplines as Philosophy (ontology, epistemology, epistemology, axiology and anthropology), Philosophy of law, General and Legal Praxeology, Theory of law, Sociology of law, Comparative law, History of Law, History of Political and Legal Doctrines, Roman Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Family Law, Commercial Law, Agricultural Law, Environmental Law, Arbitration Law, Finance Law and the branches of legal process – Civil, Criminal, Administrative, Economic etcetera, and also with Criminology, Criminalistics (the fields of Criminalistics technic – Fingerprinting, Tracology, Ballistics, Chromatography, Criminalistics Photography, Graphology, Authorology, Odorology, Habitoskopie etcetera), Legal Psychology, Forensic Medicine, Forensic Entomology, Forensic Psychiatry and all kinds of expertise. Simultaneously the author puts the emphasis on specific connections of Semiotics with cosmological questions and trying to understand the problems of being and knowledge of the world and the human. It should be noted that the author at the first time in domestic science defined connections between Semiotics of Law and Cosmology in the context of variants of solving the basic ontological and epistemological issues throughout the all history of mankind and history of Philosophy. The author also notes (as in the previous author's researches in this area) the existence of contacts of Semiotics of Law with the other autonomous sciences, which are not part of the legal or philosophical knowledge and are connected with the world of legal phenomena or with related sign systems, including such sciences as History, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Neurophysiology, Cultural Studies, Art History, Social Anthropology, Geography, Ethnography, Genealogy, Heraldry, Religion, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Cybernetics, Computer Engineering, Theory Of Algorithms, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Engineering Knowledge, Database, Expert Systems, Linguistics, Legal linguistics (Jurislinguistics), Neurolinguistics, Biosemiotics, Semiotics Of Culture, Art Semiotics, Semiotics of Politics, Semiotics of Religion, Cultural Anthropology and many others disciplines. The importance of semiotic approach to solve the question about the ontological status of the law as the key problem of Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence on the modern level of theirs development is described.