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On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…
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Technical Change and Social Revolution

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The concept and the term “industrial revolution” are far from being universally accepted. Historians and economists with a conservative inclination tend to criticize them more or less severely. My general theses is that the “industrial revolution” has been, in the first place, a true revolution, tha…
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On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…
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Rorty on Language and Social Practices

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Richard Rorty wrote on many occasions that called the linguistic turn was an attempt to keep philosophy an armchair discipline. “The idea - he said - was to mark off a space for a priori knowledge into which neither sociology nor history nor art nor natural science could intrude”. Linguistic analysi…
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A Critique of the Philosophical Underpinnings

Seth Oppong · University of Botswana: Gaborone, South-East District, …
The progress of the social science disciplines depends on conducting relevant research. However, research methodology adopted and choices made during the course of the research project are underpinned by varying ontological, epistemological and axiological positions that may be known or unknown to t…
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Pragmatic Objectivity

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Nicholas Rescher writes that “objectivity is not something we infer from the data; it is something we must presuppose. It is something that we postulate or presume from the very outset of our dealings with people’s claims about the world’s facts”. Such definition is just the opposite of objectivity …
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Pragmatism and Science

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Logical empiricism gave rise to a powerful paradigm and it took some decades to overthrow it, even though it should be judged respectfully since, after all, philosophy of science and logic as we know them stemmed from that ground. The basic assumptions on which the paradigm of the “received view” re…