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The philosophy of social science
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This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of laws and forces, or as webs of meanings and practices? Is social action better viewed as rational behaviour, or as self-expression? By exploring such questions, the reader is led to reflect upon the nature of scientific method in social science. Is the aim to explain the social world after a manner worked out for the natural world, or to understand the social world from within?
| כותר |
The philosophy of social science : an introduction / Martin Hollis [electronic resource] |
|---|---|
| מהדורה |
Rev. and updated. |
| מוציא לאור |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
| שנה |
1994 |
| הערות |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Cover THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Title Copyright Contents Preface Priface to the revised edition CHAPTER 1: Introduction: problems of Structure and Action THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT STRUCTURE AND ACTION DETERMINISM UNDERSTANDING THE PLAN OF THE BOOK CHAPTER 2: Discovering truth: the rationalist way REASON IN SEARCH OF HIDDEN ORDER APPEARANCE AND REALITY 'MIDDLE AXIOMS' NECESSITY CONCLUSION CHAPTER 3: Positive science: the empiricist way POSITIVISM 'A GRADUAL AND UNBROKEN ASCENT' HUME AND CAUSATION POSITIVE ECONOMICS THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION REALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS VS. SUCCESSFUL PREDICTIONSTHE ROLE OF THEORY DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION CHAPTER 4: Ants, Spiders and Bees: a third way? FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE? INTERPRETATION SCIENCE AS CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS SCIENCE AS A WEB OF BELIEF PARADIGMS AND AFTER CHAPTER 5: Systems and functions FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION SOCIAL FACTS AS THINGS SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES HOLISM AND INDIVIDUALISM CHAPTER 6: Games with Rational Agents RATIONAL AGENTS THE THEORY OF GAMES FOUR BASIC GAMES (1) Coordination (2) The Prisoner's Dilemma (3) Chicken (4) Battle of the SexesTHE SOCIAL CONTRACT NORMS AND COOPERATION CHAPTER 7: Understanding social action FOUR KINDS OF MEANING THE PROBLEM OF OTHER MINDS RATIONALITY: A WEBERIAN APPROACH SOCIAL ACTION AS RULE-FOLLOWING RULES AND RATIONALITY CHAPTER 8: Self and roles POSITIONS AND ROLES THE LEVEL-OF-ANALYSIS PROBLEM INSTITUTIONAL ROLES AND THE DRAMATURGICAL ANALOGY SOCIAL IDENTITY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY CHAPTER 9: Explaining and understanding RULES AND REASONS HOMO ECONOMICUS REVISITED THE CENTIPEDE 'AN ANIMAL CAPABLE OF PROMISING' A REMEDY IN THE JUDGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING?RULES, REASONS AND CAUSES RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND NORMATIVE EXPECTATIONS CHAPTER 10: A value-neutral social science? FACTS AND VALUES VALUE-FREEDOM AND VALUE-RELEVANCE DEEPER QUESTIONS (1) Values in social science (2) Value-ladenness and theory-ladenness (3) Relativism in ethics? CHAPTER 11: Rationality and relativism OTHER MINDS OTHER CULTURES LIMITS TO EMPIRICISM? FORMS OF RELATIVISM LIMITS TO RELATIVISM? FOUR WAYS OF ESCAPE CHAPTER 12: Conclusion: two stories to tell COMBINING INDIVIDUALISM AND HOLISM(1) Systems and Agents? (2) 'Games' and Actors MIXING EXPLANATION WITH UNDERSTANDING (3) 'Games' and Systems (4) Agents and Actors THEMES AND QUESTIONS Bibliography Index |
| סדרה |
Cambridge introductions to philosophy |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
997010717553805171 |
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