Epistemology and the social
By: edited by Evandro Agazzi, Javier Echeverría and Amparo Gómez Rodríguez
Contributors: Académie internationale de philosophie des sciences. Meeting
Series: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities -- v. 96
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9789042024212
Subjects: Methodology; Sociology of Knowledge; Congresses; Theory of Knowledge; Science; Philosophy; Social sciences
Description: "Epistemology had to come to terms with "the social" on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the "social" sciences, and in this case the already well established epistemology of the natural sciences seemed to have the right to dictate the conditions for a discipline to be a science. But the social sciences could successfully vindicate the legitimacy of their specific criteria for scientificity. More recently, the impact of social factors on the construction of our knowledge (including scientific knowledge) has reversed ... the old position and promoted social inquiry to the role of a criterion for evaluating the purport of cognitive (including scientific) statements"--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: Papers presented at a meeting of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, held Sept. 22-25, 2005, in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Includes bibliographical references.