Theoretical change in the boundaries of critical rationalism: commensurability and progressive rebuttal in Social Sciences

Abstract

Under the inspiration of Karl Popper's epistemology, we introduce a reflection that brings awereness of how social theories are subject to a particular process of epistemic change. For this reason a substantive model ––progressive, historical and intrepetative–– is proposed to reveal the empirical space of the theories, an invitation to object the development of the sciences (in particular the social sciences) that contains, in addition and indirectly, a critical view to the historical current of the epistemology; all this from our proposal: the Model of Progressive Refutation.