caa a22 4500 388098619 CHVBK 20180307125310.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300007228 doi S0012217300007228 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300007228 Courtois Stéphane Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Les disciplines herméneutiques et la théorie critique sont-elles des formes de la rationalité scientifique? [Elektronische Daten] [Stéphane Courtois] The general aim of this paper is to question the idea that hermeneutic and critical social sciences have to be conceived as specific embodiments of the scientific enterprise. This idea is rather implicit in Habermas's work, but has its grounds in his thesis about the argumentative unity of all sciences, upheld for the first time in 1973. Such a point of view turns out to be untenable for two reasons. First, the indiscriminating inclusion of the hermeneutic and critical social sciences in scientific enterprise raises problems of consistency with regard to the systematic guidelines of The Theory of Communicative Action. Moreover, the thesis of argumentative unity of the sciences itself is incompatible with Habermas's methodological conception of the role of Verstehen in the social sciences developed in section 1.4 of the book. Finally, the author argues that this conception calls for another understanding of the status and role of the hermeneutic and critical disciplines, which is outlined in some detail. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1999 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 38/2(1999), 297-326 0012-2173 38:2<297 1999 38 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300007228 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300007228 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Courtois Stéphane Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 38/2(1999), 297-326 0012-2173 38:2<297 1999 38 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge