Freudian psychoanalysis as a model for overcoming the duality between natural and human sciences

Richard Theisen Simanke

pp. 211-221

in: Décio Krause, Antonio A. Passos Videira (eds), Brazilian studies in philosophy and history of science, Berlin, Springer, 2011

Abstract

The methodological (and, ultimately, ontological) dualism that opposes natural and human (or social) sciences was born out of the German neo-Kantian environment of the late nineteenth century and organized a great deal of the epistemological reflection during the twentieth century. For as long as the logical positivist philosophy of science has prevailed, this dualism has often taken the form of a division between those sciences which had and those which did not have a concrete possibility of fitting into the epistemic model of the received view of science. The philosophical critique of this model, however, was not immediately followed by a systematic challenge of the division of the field of scientific knowledge between natural sciences and the humanities.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel

Freud Sigmund