摘要：The content of this article is an attempt to show that the word research in traditional sense (within theCartesian scheme) is hostile to design activity. It will reduce the process of design into a merely fix mechanicalprocess, burying the aspect of imagination, creativity, and more importantly proposing in it that is a crucialaspect to design. This imposition might indiscipline (in a formal academic sense) design as a discipline inhuman sciences. In order to achieve this, the article is divided in three sections. The first section will discusswhat scientific research is and what traditionally presupposed in it: objective, neutral, and a-historical; simplythe disinterestedness of research. As for the second, epistemological concerns on traditional scientific researchfrom two philosophers of science will be discussed: Thomas S. Kuhn and Paul K. Feyerabend. As for the third,the closing section, an attempt to delineate design and what designers do in comparison to scientists’ will bediscussed. It is how design and designers are different in their manners with traditional science and scientist
