TY - JOUR TI - Externalist Approaches in Political Science AU - Pierzchalski, Filip TI - Externalist Approaches in Political Science AB - The aim of this paper is a critical reflection on the solipsist approach, which problematizes some detailed considerations within interpretationism. In this sense, solipsism, defined as a research perspective in political science, is a position in which in an uncompromisingly consistent, even “total” way, it refers to subjective and subject-factors and/or determinants of scientific cognition and research of political reality. In the article, the polemic in relation to solipsism will mean the presentation of the aporia’s of solipsism based on externalistic positions related to the arguments proposed by Hilary Putnam and Fred Dretske. VL - 2020 IS - No. 4/2020 PY - 2020 SN - 2543-7046 C1 - 2544-0845 SP - 61 EP - 77 DO - 10.4467/25440845TP.19.016.1178 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/teoria-polityki/article/zewnetrznosc-interpretacji-badanie-polityki-w-ujeciu-eksternalistycznym KW - methodological solipsism KW - externalism KW - interpretation KW - inconsistencies of solipsism