Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences

• Book Author: Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri
• Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Number of Pages: 29
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Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences

The question of bias in methodology and terminology is a problem that faces researchers east, west, north and south, however, it faces Third World intellectuals with special keenness. For although they write in a cultural environment that has its own specific conceptual and cultural paradigms, they nevertheless encounter a foreign paradigm which attempts to impose itself upon their society and upon their very imagination and thoughts….