Astronomy, Physics, Psychology, Sociology and many more sciences have their roots in Philosophy (Giere 20). ... Sociology was initially philisophical questions of why society is what it is and what morality and justice are. ... These tools for interpreting knowledge and perspective can be applied to other sciences. ... One science which has its roots in philosophy and has been able to answer a philosophical question is sociology. ... Sociology has found an answer to how we structure our beliefs and why we must have philosophical knowledge to change. ...

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Critical and creative thinking is important to help in judging the rationality of justifications by comparing them to different interpretations and perspectives. ... Another hindrance is from psychological or sociological pitfalls such as communal reinforcements and emotional appeal. ...

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As they call their approaches the "sociology of knowledge", they pay a great deal of attention to the role of knowledge in constructing these objective and subjective realities. ... By taking this view of knowledge and putting it into a perspective easier to grasp, Berger and Luckmann seem to perceive knowledge as a tool for social construction of realities, which means that no meaningful creation of either subjective or objective realities would be feasible. ...

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As they call their approaches the "sociology of knowledge", they pay a great deal of attention to the role of knowledge in constructing these objective and subjective realities. ... By taking this view of knowledge and putting it into a perspective easier to grasp, Berger and Luckmann seem to perceive knowledge as a tool for social construction of realities, which means that no meaningful creation of either subjective or objective realities would be feasible. ...

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An important intellectual challenge in this regard is finding one's way among the increasing variety of theoretical perspectives, ideologies and truth claims that abound in scholarly fields. ... Psychology, sociology, anthropology, and archeology can give us insight into epistemology; various "soft" sciences dealing with comparative cultures can provide food of thought in ethics, and so on. ...

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