ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Searching for a common discursive space between the natural and social sciences by using of analogy
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Zakład Systemów Produkcji i Środowiska, Instytut Zootechniki – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Polska
Submission date: 2025-07-29
Acceptance date: 2025-11-19
Publication date: 2025-12-30
Corresponding author
Kamila Magdalena Musiał
Zakład Systemów Produkcji i Środowiska, Instytut Zootechniki – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Polska
Zakład Systemów Produkcji i Środowiska, Instytut Zootechniki – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Polska
Rozprawy Społeczne/Social Dissertations 2025;19(1):378-386
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Abstract: The need for discourse, and polemics in science is evident across many
disciplines. The aim of this paper was to identify selected interpretations of biological
strategies within social sciences, based on reasoning through analogy. Material and methods: Method of analogy may support discovery of new ways to expand
evaluative frameworks of distinct scientific disciplines. This study compares certain
assumptions to examine whether theoretical debate across different fields of knowledge
facilitates emergence of shared conceptual ground. Results: Economics, classified as social science, has from its early stages drawn analogies
to natural processes. A field of inquiry where these two domains may intersect is
evolutionary economics. This is because various human behaviors in the economic sphere
can be related to mechanisms that occur naturally in the biological world. Conclusions: Evolutionary economics may provide a platform for interdisciplinary
discourse, based on assumption that economic development, like nature, is subject to
continuous transformation governed by principles of natural selection.
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