Posada J. 2006. La Subjetividad en las Ciencias Sociales, una cuestión Ontológica y no Epistemológica. Cinta moebio 25: 8-16

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The Subjective in the Social Sciences, Ontology and not Epistemology

Jorge Gregorio Posada (jorge.posada@ucaldas.edu.co). Departamento de Filosofía. Universidad de Caldas (Colombia)

Abstract

The following paper will take the polemic between social sciences and natural sciences. I will argue that although social sciences are immersed in the subjective and natural sciences in the objective, it does not implicate that objective knowledge is exclusive of natural sciences. I will show the possibility objective knowledge in social sciences and, in fact, it has been so, despite the subject character in its objects of study: social constructions. To demonstrate the previous argument, I will use the distinction between the ontological, as the mode of being, and the epistemological, as the sphere of the judgment.

Key words: philosophy, epistemology, ontology, social and natural sciences.