The relationship between scientific discourse and ethics is at the heart of sociological thought since its founding as an autonomous scientific discipline. The starting point is certainly to be found in the distinction between "ethics of conviction" and "ethics of responsibility" advanced by Max Weber. The theme runs through the entire theoretical elaboration of the '900 and is one of the central themes of the branch of sociology that specializes in the analysis of scientific activity, otherwise called Sociology of Science (and later Sociology of Sociology). On the basis of this tradition, so to speak hidden within the sociological knowledge, in this paper I propose to analyze the validity of the scientific discourse in the social sciences through the use of three semantic criteria: the true, the good and the right . Which in turn refer to three dimensions of scientific activity: the truth, consistency and accountability; belonging respectively to three different sets of values and ethical (codes): ethics, aesthetics and public ethics. These criteria - truth, consistency and responsibility - will be re-specified, following the categories of analysis of the relational paradigm, into the different dimensions of scientific knowledge: ontology, epistemology, methodology and pragmatic.
Il vero, il bello e il giusto. Tre criteri relazionali per valutare la validità del discorso scientifico nelle scienze sociali
BASSI, ANDREA
2016
Abstract
The relationship between scientific discourse and ethics is at the heart of sociological thought since its founding as an autonomous scientific discipline. The starting point is certainly to be found in the distinction between "ethics of conviction" and "ethics of responsibility" advanced by Max Weber. The theme runs through the entire theoretical elaboration of the '900 and is one of the central themes of the branch of sociology that specializes in the analysis of scientific activity, otherwise called Sociology of Science (and later Sociology of Sociology). On the basis of this tradition, so to speak hidden within the sociological knowledge, in this paper I propose to analyze the validity of the scientific discourse in the social sciences through the use of three semantic criteria: the true, the good and the right . Which in turn refer to three dimensions of scientific activity: the truth, consistency and accountability; belonging respectively to three different sets of values and ethical (codes): ethics, aesthetics and public ethics. These criteria - truth, consistency and responsibility - will be re-specified, following the categories of analysis of the relational paradigm, into the different dimensions of scientific knowledge: ontology, epistemology, methodology and pragmatic.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
