Advancing Human Science

The purpose of this paper is to seek greater clarity about human science by scrutinizing some conceptual distictions. We shall see that such distinctions, whether for inquiry or pedagogy, have given rise to the current difficulties. The demarcations and their consequences have not provided greater clarity, but rather controversy over the nature of human science in both content and method. In this paper, I will be using the phrase "human science" as a generic, collective reference to those sciences and disciplines which penain directly to human beings.