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Liberabit
versión impresa ISSN 1729-4827
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BUENO-CUADRA, Roberto y ARAUJO-ROBLES, Elizabeth Dany. Epistemic optimism: in defense of objectivity in science. liber. [online]. 2017, vol.23, n.2, pp.273-290. ISSN 1729-4827. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24265/liberabit.2017.v23n2.08.
The purpose of this paper is to carry out a defense of the objectivist stance before the insistent presence of constructivist and relativist epistemologies in psychology. For this, we critically examine some constructivist arguments and then we review the role of non-cognitive factors and researchers’ conceptual frameworks in constructing knowledge. We finalize with a brief account about rationality of scientific decision and the possibility of a progressive, not only substitute, development of scientific knowledge. We substitutive that, contrary to claims of constructivists and relativists, it is indeed possible to create knowledge and there exists a way of true progress in it, all of which we call epistemic optimism.
Palabras clave : scientific knowledge; constructivism; objectivity; paradigms; scientific rationality; relativism.