Interdisciplinarity of the Social and Legal Sciences: Intellectual imposture or scientific aspiration?
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| Natura: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2022 |
| Descrizione: | This article presents a critical analysis of a present-day topic: The interdisciplinarityof the social and legal sciences. It establishes that in order to fulfill this objective,the indiscriminate use of the word inter- or transdisciplinarity does not suffice. It isnecessary to conduct a realistic study on the theoretical difficulties that runs counterto this objective. The study analyzes mainly three “epistemological obstacles” thatoppose team work in the following disciplines: (1) the problem of incommensurability between paradigms (Kuhn, Feyerabend), (2) the problem of the linguistic-relativityprinciple (Whorf, Sapir, Wittgenstein), and (3) the problem of close or autopoietical systems (Luhmann, Teubner). The article concludes that behind these obstacles there exists a significant amount of confusion, and even intellectual pedantry.Interdisciplinarity demands, beyond the overcoming of logical barriers, both a personal and antidogmatic attitude and a constant struggle against arrogance, vanity and professional chauvinism. |
| Stato: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lingua: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/51127 |
| Accesso online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/51127 |
| Keyword: | SOCIAL SCIENCES LEGAL THEORY INTERDISCIPLINARITY EPISTEMOLOGICAL OBSTACLE INCOMMENSURABILITY PARADIGM LINGUISTIC-RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE AUTOPOIESIS CIENCIA SOCIAL TEORÍA DEL DERECHO INTERDISCIPLINARIEDAD OBSTÁCULO EPISTEMOLÓGICO INCONMENSURABILIDAD PARADIGMA PRINCIPIO DE RELATIVIDAD LINGÜÍSTICA |