caa a22 4500 44530183X CHVBK 20180317142600.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12124-010-9135-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12124-010-9135-6 Clegg Joshua Psychology Department, John Jay College, CUNY, 899 Tenth Avenue, 10019, New York, NY, USA aut Uncertainty as a Fundamental Scientific Value [Elektronische Daten] [Joshua Clegg] The author argues that, though social scientists generally value tolerance for ambiguity, and some even assert a fundamental indeterminacy in human systems, there is still a discipline-wide discomfort with uncertainty and ambiguity. It is argued that this distaste for uncertainty derives from a distorted view of the classical physical sciences, a view that ignores the essentially critical and radical foundations of scientific practice. The drive for certainty, it is argued, is essentially unscientific, in that certain, or adequate, forms of knowledge can only recapitulate the already known and in their dogmatic and institutionalized forms prevent the development of genuinely new knowledge. In contrast, uncertainty is defended as a positive condition, generative of new knowledge because it is open to discovery and to the mystery of the other. The conclusion drawn from this analysis is that the social sciences can only progress if uncertainty, or mystery, is protected and cultivated through a scientific discourse constituted in local and concrete terms (rather than in general and universal ones) and through a self-reflective and self-critical research praxis. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Mystery nationallicence Uncertainty nationallicence Science nationallicence Knowledge nationallicence Indeterminacy nationallicence Ambiguity nationallicence Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/3(2010-09-01), 245-251 1932-4502 44:3<245 2010 44 12124 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9135-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9135-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Clegg Joshua Psychology Department, John Jay College, CUNY, 899 Tenth Avenue, 10019, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/3(2010-09-01), 245-251 1932-4502 44:3<245 2010 44 12124 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer