Objectivity and Values in the Islamic Social Sciences

The major motivation for the development of Islamic social sciences in the thought of ‘Allāmah Misbah is the observation that values play an essential role in the social sciences, and that in many works in these fields, the underlying values are inimical to religion, particularly to Islam. ‘Allāmah Misbah’s position on the Islamicization of the social sciences is best understood as a form of scientific pluralism. One of the major challenges to any form of scientific pluralism is how to maintain the objectivity of scientific research. Several approaches to objectivity are surveyed and it is suggested that a risk-account of scientific objectivity may be adopted to bolster claims for the objectivity of the islamicized social sciences.

کلیدواژه ها:

Objectivity ، Scientific pluralism ، Islamic social sciences ، Islamicization ، Value-Free Science ، The fact-value dichotomy