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Language and Dialogue
Vol. 13:1 (2023) ► pp.26–50
Discussion articles

Principles of New Science

Dialogue between science and philosophy

| University of Münster

The current state of the art in Dialogue Analysis represents a multitude of diverse models of dialogue, communication, pragmatics, discourse, interaction, organization, and management, which claim to be science or philosophy. Can we indeed expose science and philosophy to arbitrary decisions on issues and methodology? As soon as our object becomes ‘dialogue in the stream of life’, science faces the issue of complexity. The challenge is to develop a new type of science which is capable of grasping the complex whole and deriving the components from it. New Science as science of complexity also demonstrates how science and philosophy can be united by description and explanation in science and evaluation and recommendation in philosophy.

Keywords: science, philosophy, complexity, New Science, dialogue, communication, discourse, verification, theory, human nature, institutional games, practices
Article outline
  • 1.Introductory remarks
  • 2.What is science, what is philosophy?
  • 3.What is our object?
  • 4.Verification by human nature
  • 5.Principles of New Science
    • 5.1Basic premises
    • 5.2The object
    • 5.3Methodology
      • Dialogic action
      • Components of meaning
      • The means
      • The principle of specialization
      • Universal basis and individual cases of performance
      • The role of data
    • 5.4The importance of verification
  • 6.Institutional games: Organization and management
  • 7.Science and philosophy: Outlook
  • References
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Published online: 7 March 2023
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