THE THEME OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY -FOUCAULT VE DERRIDA INSTANCE / POSTMODERN SOSYAL TEORİDE BİLİM FELSEFESİ’NİN İZLEKLERİ -FOUCAULT VE DERRIDA ÖRNEĞİ

• Main Author: Ruhi Can Alkın
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cyprus International University 2014-11-01
• Series: Folklor/Edebiyat
• Subjects: Philosophy of Science; Falsification; Paradigms; Postmodernizm; Deconstruction.
• Online Access: https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/1847246543_fe-80-13.pdf

The role of philosophy of science on the formation of postmodern social theory has not been discussed as much as the role of the some of the other philosophical diciplines. At this point, by considering the postmodern social theory, current text proposes to discuss the basic theories and arguments of some thinkers who could be named as the contemporary representatives of philosophy of science. For this purpose, Popper’s idea of falsification and criticism on historicism, Kuhn’s theory on paradigms and Feyerabend’s ‘anarchistic’ manner on methodological restrictions or classification on scientific occupation will construct the background of the study. After the first step, postmodern social theory and it’s basic arguments will be incorporated into the text. When doing this, thinkers mentioned above will always be remembered in terms of their philosophical and scientific position. On the following part, some of the basic notions discussed by Foucault and Derrida such as deconstruction, archeology and genealogy, histiography, etc. will be considered as the examples of postmodern social theory. Lastly, these notions will be compared to aforementioned arguments on philosophy of science. In doing so, similar points among philosophy of science and postmodern social theory will be given via specific examples.