The manual is written on the materials of lectures on the course "History and Philosophy of Science", annually read by professors of the Faculty of Public Administration of MSU . In. Lomonosov for graduate students and applicants for the degrees of candidate of sciences studying at the faculty . It for the first time in the domestic literature in a detailed form presents the history of the development of management sciences and all the main ideas and concepts of the philosophy of public administration of the 20th century. The main milestones in the development of philosophical foundations of the central paradigms of modern sociology, economic science, politics and law are also analyzed. The work will be useful to all graduate students and applicants of humanitarian and socio-economic profile in their preparation for the candidate's exam in the history and philosophy of science , as well as all those interested in the current state of fundamental research in the field of conceptual and philosophical foundations of the social and human sciences .