Epistemological scientism and the scientific meta-method

Abstract This paper argues that the proponents of epistemological scientism must take some stand on scientific methodology. The supporters cannot simply defer to social organisation science because processes themselves meet methodological criteria. Among such criteria is epistemic evaluability, which demands intersubjective access reasons. We derive twelve theses outlining implications evaluability. Evaluability can support weak and broad variants scientism, state sciences, broadly construed, are best sources knowledge or other goods. Since humanities sciences produce epistemically evaluable results, narrow types only natural as require additional argumentation in their support. Strong takes source knowledge, also needs appeal further principles since evaluability not an all-or-nothing affair.