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Yeah so you have to make a difference between empirical science and science here really. Which Max Weber who was one of the pillars of social sciences stated ar
by rijoja 5y ago
Yeah so you have to make a difference between empirical science and science here really. Which Max Weber who was one of the pillars of social sciences stated around one hundred years ago.
"As such, he was a key proponent of methodological anti-positivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than empiricist) methods, based on understanding the purpose and meanings that individuals attach to their own actions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
edit: This is then further developed by the so called Frankfurt School as Critical Theory.
- acituan 5y agoAlternatively, anti-positivist endeavors should find themselves another space to occupy and not piggy-back on an institutional adjacency to actual sciences to posture credibility, authority, attain public funding etc.
- rijoja 5y agoOn the other hand one might also argue that positivism is just a school of philosophy and that positivists are piggy backing on a thousands of years old tradition of philosophy.
- bgandrew 5y ago>> thousands of years old tradition of philosophy imagine those proponents of 'thousands of years old tradition of philosophy' would try to accomplish anything with it. how funny that would be..