Human Sciences Vs Natural Sciences

Right then, firstly lets discuss why we trust the human sciences.

Both sciences obtain their results in a similar fashion, they both observe and experiment. They look to prove their hypothesis through observing patterns in their experiments. Indeed J S Mills who was a British Philosopher said anything that has regular patterns fits subject for a science. From these experiments scientists form laws. For example Newton's laws of motion and The Law of Demand. Why we regard laws of physics, however, to be more certain that laws of economics is down to one four key factors which I will touch on later.

Maybe we are judging social sciences when they were never meant to be judged along side the natural sciences. Were the social sciences every meant to be as certain as the natural sciences? After all we are dealing with humans.

Even still, despite this huge hoop that is humans social scientist have still managed to create virtual certainty in some aspects of their subject. For example in Economics- the law of demand (pick up an item and raise the price and watch the demand fall).

Moreover social sciences are becoming more and more trustworthy, it wasn't that long ago we knew relatively little about the human brain and psychology. However now people are able to spot, fear, guilt, apprehension from the smallest facial expressions. This has helped police teams spot guilty people. Furthermore psychologists now have such knowledge of their subject that they might be regarded as doctors as they are able to give diagnosis. This increasing certainty all comes from building on existing theories, and in this way human science theories are becoming more and more trustworthy.

Just because there is not one right answer doesn't mean to say it is less trustworthy. Indeed in many aspects of social science there are two or more schools of thought. Often most if not all can be found to be correct. For example New Classical and Keynesian Economic perspective. There are examples of economies experiencing economic growth with little government intervention and some experiencing economic growth with more government intervention. In my opinion Keynesian Economics is far superior to that of the New Classical however that's just me.