What can the social sciences learn from the process of mathematization in the natural sciences

Abstract

The paper tries to put the conflict of the natural and the human sciences into its historical context. It describes the changes in classification of scientific disciplines that accompany a scientific revolution, and offers an alternative to Kuhn’s theory. Instead of a conflict between the proponents and opponents of the new paradigm it interprets the revolution as a conflict between the mixed disciplines and the metaphorical realm of the old paradigm.