Retour sur la question du naturalisme en sciences sociales

Sociologies

关键词: naturalism;    social sciences;    cognitive sciences;    psychology;    biology;    interdisciplinarity;   

DOI  :  10.4000/sociologies.19143

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Generally speaking, the term naturalism provokes suspicion among social scientists. However, as Dan Sperber reminds us (Sperber, Coubray, & Schmitt, 2011), the naturalistic ambition originally covered a monistic (thus opposed to dualism) and materialist ambition that animated the passions of many classical social science authors such as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Nevertheless, at the present time and in the field of social sciences, naturalism sometimes generates repulsion. The debate initiated in 2011 by Laurence Kaufmann and Laurent Cordonnier in the journal SociologieS has produced a rejection attitude among several sociologists. In this article, we propose to participate in this debate in order to contribute to its depolarization. To do so, we propose to discuss the argument that, if the pragmatist tradition that is, for example, at the origin of the Chicago School, constitutes a social naturalism (i.e., the Naturalism of the Founders of American Interactionism; NFAI), the latter covers a scientific posture that is fundamentally incompatible with Contemporary Francophone Social Naturalism (CFSN) that has been developing for the last few decades.

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