Poppers Methodologischer Individualismus und die Sozialwissenschaften |
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Authors: | Marco Buzzoni |
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Institution: | (1) Via Caffaro, 29/10, I-16124 Genova |
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Abstract: | Popper's methodological individualism and the social sciences. Popper's philosophy of social sciences poses a dilemma that arises out of the two theses of methodological individualism
and situational logic. In order to find a way out of this dilemma, one must raise the question concerning the epistemological
and methodological status of the `laws' of the human sciences. There are indeed `rules' from which human actions depart mostly
to a negligible extent, but they remain valid or stay in effect without exception only as far as they are not re-evoked or
re-emerge in the consciousness of the agents. The element of truth of methodological individualism lies in the person's capacity
to revoke, in principle, the validity of the rules concerning oneself. Situational logic and methodological individualism
can thus be reconciled.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | human sciences methodological individualism Popper situational logic social laws social sciences |
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