Values and Judgments in Discursive Semiosphere of Theory Building in Chairs of Humanity Sciences

Hatefi, Mohamad

doi:10.22034/rahyaft.2020.13797

Values and Judgments in Discursive Semiosphere of Theory Building in Chairs of Humanity Sciences

Author

mohamad hatefi

Assistant Professor at Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS), Tehran, Iran

10.22034/rahyaft.2020.13797

Abstract

Theorization Chairs are scientific circles for criticizing and evaluating scientific proposals to claim that they are presenting a theory. These chairs are under the executive management of The Board of Theorization, Criticism and Debate. The Code of the Chairs is essentially an executive code. The Code defines the science and classifies the sciences from a realistic point of view and not from an ideological point of view. It just to group the existing scientific disciplines from a thematic and methodological point of view. In the absence of defining the terms of “science” and “theory”, the codebook uses the terms “hypotheses”, “problem”, “arguments”, and “competing theories” for defining the process of theory making. The Code proposes “ultimate judgment-value” for evaluating theories but the research shows that the writer of the proposal (theory maker), is under the influence of an ideological point of view and under that influence, has interpreted the Code’s approach as a “primary judgment-value”. This misunderstanding, has paved the way for emerging a challenge between the discursive values of the Code with the discursive values of the theory maker.

Keywords

20.1001.1.10272690.1398.29.76.3.7

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