Science, for What? Or: Science with Conscience - The Invisible College of Dissenting Nuclear Scientists

Franco Ferrarotti

Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2019, issue 20, 12-33

Abstract: The main contention of this essay is that sciences can be seen as belonging to two broad categories: a) demonstrative; b) interpretative. Demonstrative, or �tough�, sciences are �natural� sciences; interpretative sciences are philosophy, history, all the social sciences, different as thy are (for instance, history is based on causal imputation; sociology, on conditional comparative approach). At present all sciences cannot presume to offer universally valid �laws�, timeless and spaceless, but only general, probabilistic tendencies. Moreover, contrary to a misconception Max Weber�s �Wertfreiheit�, no science is neutral. It pertains to the social responsibility of scientists the pratical use of eventual scientific findings (for instance, the atomic or the hydrogen bomb).

Keywords: Demonstrative sciences; Interpretation; Causal imputation; Comparative Typology; Practical Fallouts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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