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Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Frank E. Hartung
Frank E. Hartung*
Affiliation:
Wayne University
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The sociology of knowledge can most generally be defined as the discipline devoted to the social origins of thought. It is an analysis concerned with specifying the existential basis of thought, and with establishing the relationship obtained between mental structures or thought, and that existential basis. Some very interesting and difficult problems arise from this conception of the sociology of knowledge. Perhaps the most obvious of these is whether or not a sociology of knowledge, as here conceived, is theoretically possible. This is a problem I do not intend to deal with at present because limitations of time prevent me from doing even partial justice to it.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1952 , pp. 17 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1952

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Footnotes

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Paper presented to the meeting sponsored jointly by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Philosophy of Science Association and the American Philosophical Association, New York, December 29, 1949.

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