Permanent research fellow
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-9288-2025
PhilPeople: https://philpeople.org/profiles/juozas-kasputis
Juozas Kasputis is a research fellow at iASK Polanyi Centre. He holds an MA in Practical Philosophy from Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania, 2011). Juozas Kasputis carries out a philosophical inquiry on methodological challenges in the social sciences. The scope of his work covers the philosophy of science, social philosophy, semiotics, critical studies. Juozas Kasputis was a young research fellow at ISES under the National Excellence program (Hungary) in 2014 – 2015. His research interest at iASK are the application of scientific methods within social sciences, considered from a philosophical perspective. He specifically scrutinizes the issues of objectivity, rationality, social embeddedness of knowledge, and social engagement of scientific communities but is also interested in the history of utopian thought.
Recent Publications:
- “Hierarchical Inconsistencies: A Critical Assessment of Justification”, Economic Thought 8 (2):1-12, 2019, ISBN: 20493509 20556314
- “Democracy of Incomplete Victories: State, Civil Society, and the Scientific Method”, Proceedings of Fourth European Blue Sky Conference: Faultlines and frontlines of European transformation. Koszeg (Hungary): pp. 47-60, 2020, ISBN: 978-615-5742-25-5
- “Scholar Entangled: The Unattainable Detachment in Social Inquiry”, Problemos 100, 2021, ISSN: 1392-1126
