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Item Details
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NEW PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
PROBLEMS OF INDETERMINACY |
| By: |
James Bohman |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£18.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262521830 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262521833 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
26 August, 1993 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
philosophy of science has in recent years begun to show a healthier respect for history and actual practice |
| Synopsis: |
Under the influence of postempiricism, the philosophy of science has changed enormously in recent years. New Philosophy of Social Science provides a clear and useful overview of the new synthesis that has taken place. Bohman argues for a theoretical and methodological pluralism grounded in an account of the nature of the objects of social theory, which are necessarily indeterminate and open ended: the new, postempiricist philosophy of social science "must find rigor within indeterminacy. "Bohman's position, that you can start from actual practices in the social sciences, accept the fact that they will always contain indeterminacy and ambiguity, and yet be able to construct viable norms, is buttressed by a number of case studies. These include examples drawn from rational choice theory, ethnomethodology, and the theory of communicative action. In the process, Bohman describes the status of such issues as causality, rules, interpretation, holism, and social criticism. The argument is not tied to a specific theoretical point of view, although it takes the program of the Frankfurt School as an indication of the path toward a proper philosophy of the social sciences.James Bohman is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at St.Louis University. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
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Non-returnable |
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