Resumen

ESTRELLA GONZALEZ, Alejandro. Compared Philosophy: A Theoretical Proposal Based on a Critique of the Sociology of Randall Collins. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2017, vol.32, n.92, pp.69-98. ISSN 2007-8358.

The aim of this article is to explore the capacity of the social sciences to contribute to comparative philosophy. After discussing problems involving the practice of comparative philosophy, the author focuses on the issue of the object of study and uses the social sciences to resolve the difficulties encountered. Using Randal Collins’s work, he analyzes its object of comparison, philosophical creativity. He then puts forward a series of proposals linked to certain obscure or not fully developed points in Collins’s work. Finally, he uses these issues to propose new objects of comparison: philosophical generations, the degree of autonomy and harmoniousness, forms of legitimizing the philosophical endeavor, and intellectual movements.

Palabras llave : sociology of philosophy; Randall Collins; intellectual generations; field of philosophy; forms of legitimizing philosophical endeavor; intellectual movements.