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Evaluation, prescription, and political decision
pp. 145-166
Résumé
The paradox of the self-fulfilling (or self-defeating) prediction was, Neurath pointed out, only one element within a still wider context — that of the circular inclusion of the sociologist's work as a part itself of the subject matter of his research. Epistemological examination of the social sciences, and especially of sociology, had to take its starting point within the self-referential circle in which the social scientist's activity was itself to be analysed as 'social praxis' and in which "the scientist himself figures as one of the elements of the social picture".1
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Zolo Danilo (1989) Reflexive epistemology: the philosophical legacy of Otto Neurath. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 145-166
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2415-4_7
Citation complète:
Zolo Danilo, 1989, Evaluation, prescription, and political decision. In D. Zolo Reflexive epistemology (145-166). Dordrecht, Springer.