Raisonner en sciences humaines
First Edition
This book takes an insider's look at how knowledge is created in the humanities and social sciences. Read More
How is knowledge generated in the human sciences? What are the particularities of research in the humanities? What does it mean to reason in the human sciences? Through samples drawn from the distinctive perspectives of literature, philosophy, history, sociology, political sciences and economics, this book highlights the fertile tensions generated by the problematic status of the human sciences in their relationship to the natural sciences, to their objects and methods, and to their intra- and interdisciplinary practices.
How to articulate the particular case and explanatory structures? The specificity of the interests involved in human activities (of which the natural sciences are an integral part) explains why the human sciences are resisting the growing temptation to standardize research practices.
To be a researcher is to be prepared to be surprised, even to abandon one's initial theoretical hypotheses. Scientific research should therefore aim for an ideal of reflexivity and confrontation of ideas, rather than an ideal of universality.
Specifications
- Publisher
- Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
- Edited by
- Valérie Aucouturier, Laurent Van Eynde,
- Collection
- ISSN
- 28008014
- Language
- French
- Tags
- epistemology, human and social sciences, knowledge, research, SHS
- Publisher Category
- Septentrion Catalog > Philosophy > Epistemology
- Publisher Category
- Bibliothèques > Bibliothèque Sociétés et problèmes contemporains
- Publisher Category
- Septentrion Catalog > Philosophy
- BISAC Subject Heading
- PHI000000 PHILOSOPHY
- Dewey (abridged)
- 100 Philosophy
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3126 Philosophie > 4128 Epistémologie, philosophie des sciences, logique
- Title First Published
- 06 February 2026
- Original Publication
- 2024
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 06 February 2026
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-7574-4190-9
- Extent
- Main content page count : 206
- Code
- 2284
- Dimensions
- 16 x 24 x 1.3 cm
- Weight
- 370 grams
- List Price
- 19.00 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Introduction
Valérie Aucouturier et Laurent Van Eynde
La tension entre le singulier et le général
Sans rime ni raison ? Analyse littéraire et tentation der irrationnel
Victoire Feuillebois
L'histoire est-elle une littérature contemporaine ?
Nicolas Simon
D'une raison abstraite à une raison historique
Laurent Van Eynde
Retour sur les raisons et les causes
Valérie Aucouturier
Réflexivité et rationalité
Pour connaître et expliquer le monde, il faut l'investiguer.
Agnes Labrousse, Julien Vercueil Jean-Pierre Chanteau, Pascal Grouiez, Thomas Lamarche, Sandrine Michel et Martino Nieddu
Un fondement rationnel pour les sciences humaines et sociales fait-il encore recette ?
Jean-Pierre Delchambre et Nicolas Marquis
Économie politique critique ou critique der économie politique ?
Richard Sobel