Free from the Capture of Science and Philosophy: To Seeethodology from Whig’s Perspective
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Chiu, Sung-En
Abstract
Methodology, in the long term of the discussion of the academic community of politics, has been narrowed down to two approaches of discussion, which is to persist in the debate about whether knowledge of politics can be made scientifically or to have the purely abstract discussion of philosophy. These two approaches have made the area of methodology become the representative of helpless and boredom within the understanding of researchers of politics. Furthermore, unimaginable indifference and ignorance have become the way how community of politics treats methodology. In this sense, the teaching of statistics and making a research in a statistical way have almost represented methodology as a whole. For this issue, if we want to get rid of the limitation under the traditional view of science and philosophy, we must find another approach different from the two mentioned above. With the view of the history of science and through the view of the theory of critical history, this study tried to truly get in touch with scientific facts and disclose fallacies of the whig history. Under the above base, this study got into the discussion of the philosophy of science and proposed a view of whig realism to be the new horizon of methodology. Besides, this study tried to enable the academic community of Taiwan politics, which knowledge about methodology has ceased in the eighties, to find it possible to have the discussion which makes epistemological progress.
Subjects
methodology
the philosophy of science
whig interpretation
whig history
theory of critical history
history of science
epistemology
social empiricism
medical history
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-98-R94322002-1.pdf
Size
23.53 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):896acebcb8238fb025c4bdf47860e1f9