Habermas’s Critical Theory and Science
Habermas’s Critical Theory and Science
Truth and Accountability
This chapter provides some background on Habermas’s larger critical-theory project—an attempt to integrate the perspectives on argumentative practices—along with an explanation of why his discourse theory is regarded by him as important for the project. This project provides an answer to the question of vision that arises from the differences in how the relation between science and society is conceived by an individual. The chapter emphasizes that Habermas’s discourse theory as a theory of scientific inquiry and argumentation has been developed in the areas of morality, politics, and law, and that there is a need to extend it to the field of sciences, as well. It concludes that the employment of Habermas’s theory of communicative action for purposes of critical assessment also depends on “a particular vision of social emancipation.”
Keywords: Habermas’s discourse theory, scientific inquiry, scientific argumentation, social emancipation, science, communicative action
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