UID:
almafu_9959226628002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
Rev. and updated.
ISBN:
1-107-15711-0
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1-316-09872-9
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0-511-61815-8
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1-139-07907-7
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1-139-06875-X
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1-139-07679-5
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1-139-08134-9
Serie:
Cambridge introductions to philosophy
Inhalt:
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?
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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
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REALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS VS. SUCCESSFUL PREDICTIONSTHE ROLE OF THEORY; DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION; CONCLUSION; 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; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 5: Systems and functions; FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION; SOCIAL FACTS AS THINGS; SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES; HOLISM AND INDIVIDUALISM; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6: Games with Rational Agents; RATIONAL AGENTS; THE THEORY OF GAMES; FOUR BASIC GAMES; (1) Coordination; (2) The Prisoner's Dilemma; (3) Chicken
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(4) Battle of the SexesTHE SOCIAL CONTRACT; NORMS AND COOPERATION; CONCLUSION; 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; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 8: Self and roles; POSITIONS AND ROLES; THE LEVEL-OF-ANALYSIS PROBLEM; INSTITUTIONAL ROLES AND THE DRAMATURGICAL ANALOGY; SOCIAL IDENTITY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 9: Explaining and understanding; RULES AND REASONS; HOMO ECONOMICUS REVISITED; THE CENTIPEDE; 'AN ANIMAL CAPABLE OF PROMISING'
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A REMEDY IN THE JUDGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING?RULES, REASONS AND CAUSES; RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND NORMATIVE EXPECTATIONS; CONCLUSION; 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?; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 11: Rationality and relativism; OTHER MINDS; OTHER CULTURES; LIMITS TO EMPIRICISM?; FORMS OF RELATIVISM; LIMITS TO RELATIVISM?; FOUR WAYS OF ESCAPE; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 12: Conclusion: two stories to tell
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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
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-44780-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-44264-8
Sprache:
Englisch
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