DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2024.230203 Author: Jon Abbink Affiliation: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Email: g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl Language: English Issue: 2/2024 (23) Pages: 42-65 (24 pages) Keywords: epistemology, scientific method, Western telos, rationalism, anti-science movements Abstract I discuss some of the current challenges to the social sciences/humanities and contend that their impact, marked by epistemological confusion…
