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What are the human sciences, and what makes them “scientific”? - Coggle…
What are the human sciences, and what makes them “scientific”?
Human sciences study human behavior, human nature, and the creations of human society
One element of this is that human behavior differs/changes a lot, which might make predictions/generalizations harder
Are human beings unexplainable? Are there limits to the human sciences that are stricter than limits in the natural sciences?
It might be difficult, in some cases, to distinguish betwen natural and human sciences
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If humans are not "perfect," can they achieve the "perfection," (or one might say the "supremacy") of the natural sciences?
Supported by evidence
There might be differences in the types/amounts of evidence are required for different disciplines in the human sciences
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Ideas in the human sciences must be testable (or at least we would expect them to be if they are scientific)
Peer review/community scrutiny of claims is part of science and so we would expect it to be part of human science too
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One of the methods of the human sciences would be models, if we also find those things in the natural sciences
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