Hermeneutic as one of the leading modern cognitive practice: the historical-philosophical aspect

In the article author draws attention to one of the main problems of the modern epistemology - negotiation of the naturalism in cognition. Proceed from this attitude author tries to analyse epistemologycal foundations of the hermeneutics, used from the point of the historical-philosophical aspect, and to examine the evolution of the hermeneutic ideas, which clear the peculiarities of the hermeneutic way of science.