" Preface" to *Epistemology of the Social Science* by Walter Weimer ABSTRACT
A truism of the biological and social studies is that topics such as “the methodology of scientific research” or “epistemology” or “philosophy of science” are to be met with a groan. 1/n
A truism of the biological and social studies is that topics such as “the methodology of scientific research” or “epistemology” or “philosophy of science” are to be met with a groan. 1/n
This preface notes why that approach is wrong, and in what direction real and significant progress can and has been made by adopting an evolutionary approach to epistemology and psychology in place of the static and pre-evolutionary approach of traditional justificationist .. 2/n
.. philosophy. Epistemology is one of the life sciences, not a part of static philosophical “after the fact” reconstruction.
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