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RESEARCH ARTICLE
An Evaluation of Scientism through Epistemic Certainty
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1 Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler MYO, Pazarlama ve Reklamcılık Bölümü 40100, Kırşehir,
Turkey
Received: 20 October 2022 | Published online: 30 December 2022
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Abstract
Scientism is a philosophical approach in which it is argued that methods of natural sciences should be used in different disciplines. Scientism is a methodological attitude and includes ontological presuppositions. However, the beginning of the scientistic argument is the point of formation of epistemic beliefs, and therefore it is reasonable for an evaluation and criticism of scientism to begin with epistemology. Because scientism is an epistemological claim as an answer to the question of the basis of a belief. The epistemic principle of scientism is that knowledge is only scientific. Then one presupposes that the truth can only be reached through natural sciences. However, the relationship between the phenomenal world and the human mind has been shaped by philosophical assumptions and concepts. Contrary to necessary propositions scientific propositions do not seem to be necessary truths. In this study, the epistemic principle of scientism is criticized by considering epistemic certainty.
Keywords
Scientism
scientific knowledge
epistemic certainty
epistemology
truth.
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