The choice of interpretation as a problem of social epistemology

Vladimir Porus ()
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Vladimir Porus: National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Faculty of Philosophy

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Abstract: Social epistemology is a set of attempts to assign a philosophical meaning to sociological studies of cognitive processes within their social context. These attempts are being made through competition of philosophical interpretations. The choice of interpretation is governed by the desire to bring value orientations of science in line with the challenges from a changing cultural-historical environment. Robert Merton’s “normative ethos of scientists” is reviewed here as an illustration to this thesis

Keywords: Social epistemology; sociology of science; philosophy of science; culture; values; ethos; interpretation; truth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, April 2013, pages 1-16

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