This study was aimed at developing a cognitive—econometric model for assessing the effectiveness of the current governmental policies to support enterprises in Russia in the context of pandemic propagation. Using the Granger test and correlation analysis, we formed a system of key indicators that characterizes the economic development of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) in Russia. Based on the revealed causal relationships and correlation coefficients, a model describing the impact of public policy support instruments on SME economic development was built using cognitive modeling. By means of the additive convolution method, the correlation coefficient between the Russia Small Business Index (RSBI) and the COVID-19 prevalence rate was used to predict the 2020 year-end RSBI value. Regarding the RSBI index forecast, the effectiveness of instruments of the state support for SMEs was evaluated. It was determined how much these indicators of the anti-crisis package of measures should change to increase SMEs’ business activities. The developed cognitive model can be utilized by private and governmental institutions to continuously monitor the effectiveness of public policies that support SMEs. It can also be used as a preventive indicator to evaluate the impact of the anti-crisis measures during pandemics and in the case of other exogenous risks threatening SMEs. The originality of the research results was determined by the econometric methods applied to empirically assess the effectiveness and degree of impact of governmental measures on the operation of SMEs under conditions of uncertainty.

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Показано, что в когнитивной науке происходит в настоящее время радикальная понятийная перестройка, появляются и интенсивно развиваются новые концепции, одна из которых-концепция отелесненного, встроенного и энактивного познания (embodied, embedded and enacted cognition). Обосновано, что эта понятийная перестройка, по сути, означает научную революцию. Рассмотрены новые понятия и представления об отелесненности познания, синергийной связке субъекта и объекта познания, об их коэмерджентности, об уме как синергетическом инструменте, встроенности познающего субъекта в среду, энактивизме как новой форме конструктивизма. Продемонстрировано, что эти понятия перекликаются с понятиями современной теории сложных самоорганизующихся систем и это понятийное пересечение плодотворно для обеих областей научного знания.

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The prospects of various interdisciplinary researches, the problem of the unity of scientific knowledge, the possibility of translating methods from one discipline to another, the impact of digitalization on various fields of scientific knowledge, the acceptability of general ap­proaches to science management, in particular, to the evaluation of scientific productivity are debated in the discussion on the limits of methodological convergence of natural-scien­tific and social-humanitarian knowledge. The debaters E.N. Knyazeva, G.L. Tulchinsky, V.G. Kuznetsov and N.M. Smirnova comment on each other’s positions, point out the strengths and weaknesses in proponents’ justification, agree on a number of issues, and indi­cate the main theses and arguments for each position, groping for prospects for further de­velopment of the discussed issues.

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