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Epistemological Bias IN THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences , of which Elmessiri is the editor and author of the first paper, is an anthology of writings on the subject of Bias originally published in Arabic by IIIT and subsequently translated into English. This Books-in-Brief version is an abridged edition of the English translation.
The collection of papers making up the anthology, explore and critique an issue widely accepted in the Muslim academic world as an essential and defining aspect of academic knowledge despite being a western philosophy of science and thought. This is the dominance of philoso- phical positivism, and a near total adoption as well as unquestioned acceptance of paradigms, terminologies, and research models that are in fact alien to the socio-economic-religio realities of the Muslim world. So how credible is their application and viability? For Elmessiri, the question of bias in methodology and terminology is a problem that faces researchers east, west, north and south; however, it faces Third World intellectuals with special keeness, because although they write in a cultural environment that has its own specific conceptual and cultural paradigms, they nevertheless encounter a foreign paradigm which attempts to impose itself upon their society and upon their very imagination and thoughts. Why not establish a new science, ideally suited for the purpose, with its own mechanisms, methodologies and points of reference to deal with epistemological biases and open up the gate of ijtihad with respect to them?
Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri - Personal Name
978-1-56564-592-9
NONE
Social Science
English
2013
1-31
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