ABSTRACT

The problem which Habermas indicated is the contradictory requirement in the social sciences to describe the behavior of individuals intentionally and the methodological assumption that objectivity is attainable only by the removal of differences between the intentions of particular scientists. This chapter shows that how B. Latour claims to have resolved the contradiction by turning the methodological assumption into a realistic description. Since the Ch. R. Darwin's theory of evolution, the expansion of the domains of science from the physical to the biological world purported to include humanity in nature. An important aspect of the attempt to include humanity in a unified view of nature has been an assumed continuity between cultural and natural phenomena, which introduced a tension between the mechanistic approach, dominant in explaining natural phenomena, and the interpretation of science as a rational cultural creation designed for overcoming natural limitations.