作者認為：臺灣社會科學研究水準低落的根本原因，在於學術研葡昜署既不瞭解近代西方文明主要學術研究典範的發展，又對自身的文化傳統缺乏相應的理解，而袛盲目移植套用西方各門不同學科的研究方法，造成學術實踐主體性的喪失。 在這篇論文中，作者回顧他在過去將近二十年中所作研究的心得，主張：要在儒家社會中發展社會科學，必須整合兩條不同的研究路線：第一，是瞭解近代西方文明中發展出來的主要學術典範；第二，是以西方的學術典範作為基礎，回過頭研究儒家文化傳統在現代社會中的體現。 要達到這樣的目標，必須從研究生的養成教育著手，讓他們瞭解近代西方科學哲學及主要學術典範的演變，能夠以之作為個人展開學術生涯的視域，在學術研究工作上有所創發。

It is argued that the reason for poor performance of research in various domains of social science in Taiwan is caused by the fact most that researchers understand neither the progress and development of major academic paradigms in contemporary Western civilization, nor their own cultural tradition. They imported popular research methods from the West and followed the approaches in such a similar way that they lost their own academic identities eventually. The article reviewed my previous works of research in the passed two decades, advocated that it is necessary to integrate two types of study for the development of social science in Confucian society: First, to comprehend the major academic paradigms developed in Western civilization; Second, to study the manifestations of Confucian cultural traditions in the contemporary societies by academic paradigms from the West. In order to achieve this goal, it is recommended that the philosophy of science and the progress of major academic paradigms should be included in the training program for graduate students, so that they are able to use it as horizon for conducting innovative research works and developing their academic careers.