Free from the Capture of Science and Philosophy: To See Methodology from Whig’s Perspective

• Main Authors: Chiu, Sung-En, 邱頌恩
• Other Authors: Chu, Yun-Han
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01986291757715956296

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 98 === Methodology, in the long term of the discussion of the academic community of politics, has been narrowed down to two approaches of discussion, which is to persist in the debate about whether knowledge of politics can be made scientifically or to have the purely abstract discussion of philosophy. These two approaches have made the area of methodology become the representative of helpless and boredom within the understanding of researchers of politics. Furthermore, unimaginable indifference and ignorance have become the way how community of politics treats methodology. In this sense, the teaching of statistics and making a research in a statistical way have almost represented methodology as a whole. For this issue, if we want to get rid of the limitation under the traditional view of science and philosophy, we must find another approach different from the two mentioned above. With the view of the history of science and through the view of the theory of critical history, this study tried to truly get in touch with scientific facts and disclose fallacies of the whig history. Under the above base, this study got into the discussion of the philosophy of science and proposed a view of whig realism to be the new horizon of methodology. Besides, this study tried to enable the academic community of Taiwan politics, which knowledge about methodology has ceased in the eighties, to find it possible to have the discussion which makes epistemological progress.