This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and
ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language
to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity.
Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which
scientific creativity occurs, it highlights the manner in which
epistemic communities share, work on and modify not only the
world-imaginaries that they endorse, but also those world-views
that they reject or which partially overlap with their own. Through
the concept of the social imaginary, the author explores the
theoretical interrelations among various metaphysical
world-imageries by which we organise our scientific understanding
of the world and our expectations of experience, thus shedding
light on the manner in which social ontology can inform our
practices of sharing belief. A study at the intersection of
metaphysics and social theory, The Fundamental Predicament of
Contemporary Philosophy and the Social Sciences will appeal to
scholars of sociology and philosophy with interests in questions of
ontology and epistemology.
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