On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Jürgen Habermas , Shierry Weber Nicholsen , Jerry A. StarkThe Material Realization of Science: A Philosophical View on the Experimental Natural Sciences, Developed in Discussion with Habermas. Hans Radder

Isis ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-178
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Heelan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social

Defending Reason

Beyond Reason ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 52-84
Author(s):  
Sanjay Seth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Way Of Knowing

This chapter provides a postcolonial critique of those defenders of a universal and singular Reason who, forced to acknowledge that modern knowledge has been shaped by its historical and cultural contexts, nonetheless seek to provide reasons why the presuppositions undergirding the social sciences have a claim to transhistorical and transcultural validity. Engaging in detail with the defenses of Reason mounted by Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, and John Rawls, it argues that these are not persuasive because they presuppose that which they seek to validate or “ground.” It concludes that modern knowledge is a historically and culturally specific way of knowing and being in the world, that there are good reasons to doubt that it transcends these particularities, and that while modern Western knowledge has become global, that does not validate the claim that it is universal.

scholarly journals Understanding the geographies of religion and secularity: on the potentials of a broader exchange between geography and the (post-) secularity debate

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Glasze ◽  
Thomas M. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Context Dependent

Abstract. For a long time, the mainstream of social and cultural geography seems to have implicitly accepted that religion is becoming obsolete and is of little social significance. However, since the 1990s, religion has aroused new interest in the social sciences in general, and to some extent also in social and cultural geography. Against this backdrop, a controversial discussion has started in geography on the relevance of theories of secularisation and the notion of post-secularity, as well as on possible contributions to these debates. The paper introduces the interdisciplinary debate on revisions of theories of secularisation and the promotion of post-secular perspectives, referring, among others, to Jürgen Habermas, Peter Berger, José Casanova, and Talal Asad. In a second step, we argue that an understanding of post-secularity that focuses on the contingency and context-dependent delimitation of the secular and the religious promises to be fruitful for social and cultural geography and can help us to understand the geographies of religion and secularity.

scholarly journals A RECEPÇÃO COMO "PRAGMÁTICA ARGUMENTATIVA" UMA VISITA AO CONCEITO PELO OLHAR HABERMASIANO

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (103) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Sérgio Ricardo Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Proposal ◽  
The Church ◽  
Theological Concept

O artigo tem por objetivo verificar a viabilidade e aplicabilidade do conceito teológico de recepção na realidade concreta da vida social e eclesial, ou seja, no mundo da vida da Igreja. O texto faz uma releitura do conceito, ampliando-o e trazendo-o para o campo das Ciências Sociais, por meio da proposta teórica de Jürgen Habermas na Teoria da Ação Comunicativa. Para isso, verificaremos tal processo de recepção nas Igrejas locais do Estado do Maranhão.ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present article is to verify the viability and applicability of the theological concept of reception in the reality of the social and eclesial life, in other words, in the lifeworld of the Church. The text revisits the concept, extending it and applying it to the field of Social Sciences, through the theoretical proposal of Jürgen Habermas in his Theory of Communicative Action. We will thus verify the process of reception in the local Churches of the State of Maranhão (Brazil).

Defending the Difference

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

Dreyfus argues that there is a basic methodological difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences, a difference that derives from the different goals and practices of each. He goes on to argue that being a realist about natural entities is compatible with pluralism or, as he calls it, “plural realism.” If intelligibility is always grounded in our practices, Dreyfus points out, then there is no point of view from which one can ask about or provide an answer to the one true nature of ultimate reality. But that is consistent with believing that the natural sciences can still reveal the way the world is independent of our theories and practices.

Guide to Africa Bibliography

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. xxix-xxx
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
African Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Cover Material

This bibliography records publications on Africa of interest to students of Africa, principally in the social and environmental sciences, development studies, humanities and arts. Some items from the medical, biological and natural sciences are included. The criterion used is potential relevance to a reader from a social sciences/arts background. The whole continent and associated islands are covered, with selective coverage of the diaspora. This volume aims to cover material published in 2019 together with items from earlier years not previously listed. The editor is always very glad to hear of any items omitted so that they may be included in future volumes. He would be particularly pleased to receive notification of new periodicals, print or online. African government publications and works of creative literature are not normally listed.

Assessing Contemporary Crises: Aligning Safety Science and Security Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibi van den Berg ◽  
Ruth Prins ◽  
Sanneke Kuipers
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Safety Science ◽  
Key Topics

Security and safety are key topics of concern in the globalized and interconnected world. While the terms “safety” and “security” are often used interchangeably in everyday life, in academia, security is mostly studied in the social sciences, while safety is predominantly studied in the natural sciences, engineering, and medicine. However, developments and incidents that negatively affect society increasingly contain both safety and security aspects. Therefore, an integrated perspective on security and safety is beneficial. Such a perspective studies hazardous and harmful events and phenomena in the full breadth of their complexity—including the cause of the event, the target that is harmed, and whether the harm is direct or indirect. This leads to a richer understanding of the nature of incidents and the effects they may have on individuals, collectives, societies, nation-states, and the world at large.

Pluralism in Education and Education in Pluralism

1998 ◽  
Vol 180 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Stanley L. Jaki
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Rational Thought ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
Theology And Philosophy

The physicist and historian and philosopher of science Stanley L. Jaki first notes that the word “pluralism” has become a euphemism or Trojan horse for relativism. Valid, sound pluralism ought to entail an education in the plurality of subject matters and a respect and understanding for their separate, irreducible integrities and also their rational relatedness to one another. A non-relativist epistemology of universal validity and scope underlies and relates all the great bodies of knowledge and learning—the natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, religion and theology, and philosophy itself. Unfortunately the term “pluralism” as now commonly used has confused or obscured this fundamental understanding, the invaluable legacy of rational thought since Plato. The misunderstanding of Einstein's conception of relativity is particularly damaging but typical of the misuse of modern scientific ideas by thinkers in other fields; Einstein's idea of relativity is unfortunately named, as it has nothing to do with epistemological or moral relativism, for neither of which it provides any warrant. All the subsets of rationality—the plurality of subject matters—comprise the universal set of rationality itself, a fact that Plato well understood and that needs to be understood today—perhaps now more than ever. Education need to safeguard and develop the invaluable common-sense human intuitions of the true and good as universal realities.

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