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

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 in...

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Autor principal:	Franco Ferrarotti
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Publicado:	Academicus 2019
Materias:	demonstrative sciences; interpretation; causal imputation; comparative typology; practical fallouts Social Sciences H Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a7dd3d4a44c54b58b85baffcef6e0e0b2021-12-02T15:00:03ZScience, for What? Or: Science with Conscience - The Invisible College of Dissenting Nuclear Scientists2079-37152309-108810.7336/academicus.2019.20.02https://doaj.org/article/a7dd3d4a44c54b58b85baffcef6e0e0b2019-07-01T00:00:00Z http://www.academicus.edu.al/nr20/Academicus-MMXIX-20-012-033.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2079-3715https://doaj.org/toc/2309-1088The 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).Franco FerrarottiAcademicusarticledemonstrative sciences; interpretation; causal imputation; comparative typology; practical falloutsSocial SciencesHEconomics as a scienceHB71-74ENAcademicus International Scientific Journal, Vol MMXIX, Iss 20, Pp 12-33 (2019)
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description	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).
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Science, for What? Or: Science with Conscience - The Invisible College of Dissenting Nuclear Scientists

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