Truth and the Self-Evident

Claes Gustafsson

Chapter 1 in The Production of Seriousness, 2012, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As a social scientist, I find myself wondering more and more often what the entire profession is really up to. In my more pessimistic moments, it seems to me to be oscillating between scholastic internal debate and market-oriented empirical charlatanry. One end of the spectrum involves juggling with formulae and cavilling about concepts (‘conceptual positivism’) and the other is shrouded in a smokescreen of jargon. How large a part of this discipline consists of nothing more than ‘words’, or is it possible that scientific disciplines are in themselves merely discourses that span time?

Keywords: Truth Experience; Continental Drift; Funeral Rite; Collective Thinking; Social Science Tradition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230355712_1

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