Should social science be critical?

Article Abstract:

Criticism ought to focus on assessing specific knowledge claims in terms of their contribution to a body of research knowledge among researchers. As regards validity, these claims should be judges solely in terms of whether they seem likely to be true give the evidence available.

Social sciences, Critical theory, Social criticism

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The truth of the matter: Roy Bhaskar's critical realism and the concept of alethic truth

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Roy Bhaskar's concept of alethic truth is discussed. Topics include alethic truth, including ontological, epistemological and political considerations, the truth tetrapolity, correspondence theory, and truth in relation to knowledge, justification, and being.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Criticism and interpretation, Realism, Realism (Cultural movement), Truth, Bhaskar, Roy

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Critical Science Studies as argumentation theory: who's afraid of SSK?

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The author contends that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School can be combined with the relativistic sociologies of scientific knowledge if the epistemological equivalent of John Rawl's method of avoidance is adopted.

Study and teaching, Science, Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology

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