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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Truth and the Self-Evident

Author : Claes Gustafsson

Published in: The Production of Seriousness

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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As a social scientist, I find myself wondering more and more often what the entire profession is really up to. In my more pessimistic moments, it seems to me to be oscillating between scholastic internal debate and market-oriented empirical charlatanry. One end of the spectrum involves juggling with formulae and cavilling about concepts (‘conceptual positivism’) and the other is shrouded in a smokescreen of jargon. How large a part of this discipline consists of nothing more than ‘words’, or is it possible that scientific disciplines are in themselves merely discourses that span time?

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