Crisis of European Science

is a crisis rooted in a destructive tendency pervading modern europe whereby the human sciences such as psychology, sociology, and history are treated as fully explanatory in causal terms.

the human sciences (psychology, sociology, and history) were adopting the attitude that external structures and causal relations were fully explanatory of the phenomena in questions, an attitude named psychologism, sociologism, and historicism. In practice, this commitment ultimately undermines the human sciences themselves, since the claims of the human scientist must also be reduced to external causes. (Landes 43)

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crisis of european science