Znaczenie empirii jako podstawy wyjaśniania, prognozowania i praktyki w naukach społecznych
The importance of empiricry as the basis for explaining, forecasting and practice in social sciences

Summary/Abstract: The considerations presented in the article are to be an impulse to reflect on thefoundations on which modern scientific discoveries are based. The aim of the analysis isto present a number of doubts as to the accuracy and perfection of contemporary researchresults in social sciences, in particular in the discipline of political science. In social reality28 STUDIA I ANALIZY / SP Vol. 59SEBASTIAN KOZŁOWSKIthere are still many limitations both on the part of the human being as the subject examiningreality and the imperfections of the tools he uses. The article discusses attitudes towardsscientific dispute consisting in the clash of the scientific paradigm based on empiricism andpositivism with postmodern interpretivism within the hermeneutic paradigm will soon end.

• Details
• Contents