Regimes of Evidence in Complexity Sciences

Since their inception in the 1980s, complexity sciences have been described as a revolutionary new domain of research. By describing some practices and assumptions its representatives, present article shows that this field is an association subdisciplines laying on existing disciplinary footholds. The general question guiding us here is: On what basis do scientists consider inquiry methods results valuable? To answer it, I describe five “epistemic argumentative regimes,” namely ways which argue credibility research, “ontological views,” they interpret material formal causes study objects models. Finally, proposes term “regime evidence” to designate specific combination one ontological view with or more epistemic regimes.