Relativisme et vérité scientifiques chez max weber

Abstract

Though Weber recalls that social sciences are linked to the personal interests and to an act of belief coming from the scientist, he does not claim for a relati-vist analysis of the scientifical objectivity. Bringing out the different presuppositions that allow scientifical activity, Weber solves an important epistemological difficulty concer-ning the status of social sciences. Social sciences answer to a circular definition: their objectivity can only be founded on their own empirical consequences.