The article undertakes a philosophical and methodological analysis of interdisciplinarity as one of the significant modes of organizing contemporary scientific knowledge. The study does not claim to provide an exhaustive description of all subject-specific and organizational forms of interdisciplinarity; legal inquiry is considered as an indicative field in which the need to coordinate empirical, technical, normative, social, and value-related aspects of analysis becomes especially visible. It demonstrates that the turn toward an interdisciplinary approach is determined not by the formal expansion of the research toolkit, but by the nature of complex objects that cannot be exhaustively described within a single disciplinary perspective. Particular attention is given to the fact that interdisciplinarity cannot be reduced to a simple combination of different methods, concepts, and scientific languages. Its heuristic value becomes evident under the condition of rigorous coordination of research procedures, precise conceptual translation, and preservation of standards of justification. The paper emphasizes that contemporary science requires not a mechanical overcoming of disciplinary boundaries, but their conscious and methodologically controlled crossing. Drawing on philosophy of science and legal inquiry, the article argues that interdisciplinarity makes it possible to reveal the interrelation of different dimensions of the problem under study. The conclusion is made that the interdisciplinary approach is productive only when it preserves the disciplinary core of the research and ensures the verifiability of the conclusions obtained.
methodology of science; philosophy of science; interdisciplinarity; scientific rationality; disciplinarity; legal science; epistemology