Individualism And The Unity Of Science
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| Author | : Harold Kincaid |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780847686636 |
In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences -- all sciences outside physics -- as autonomous and nonreducible. He argues that the biological and social sciences provide explanations that cannot be captured by explanations at the level of their constituent parts, and yet that this does not commit us to mysterious, nonphysical entities like vital forces or group minds. A look at real scientific practice shows that the many different sciences can be unified in a way that leaves them each an autonomous explanatory role. This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and social scientists.
| Author | : William Forbes Cooley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 118 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : Individualism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Rajeev Bhargava |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
"Methodological individualism, for which all social phenomena must be explained in terms of what individuals think, choose, and do, is widely considered to be true. By challenging key individualist assumptions, Bhargava questions this view and rehabilitates a non-individualist methodology which permits an independent study of social practices and a context-specific inquiry into the beliefs and actions of individuals." "This book will be indispensable to students and scholars of political science, philosophy, sociology, history, and anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Julie Zahle |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2014-06-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319053442 |
This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions between ontological individualists and ontological holists. Secondly, to what extent social scientific explanations may and should, focus on individuals and social phenomena respectively. This issue is debated amongst methodological holists and methodological individualists. In social science and philosophy, both issues have been intensively discussed and new versions of the dispute have appeared just as new arguments have been advanced. At present, the individualism/holism debate is extremely lively and this book reflects the major positions and perspectives within the debate. This volume is also relevant to debates about two closely related issues in social science: the micro-macro debate and the agency-structure debate. This book presents contributions from key figures in both social science and philosophy, in the first such collection on this topic to be published since the 1970s.
| Author | : Lars Udehn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2002-11-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134601905 |
Throughout the history of social thought, there has been a constant battle over the true nature of society, and the best way to understand and explain it. This volume covers the development of methodological individualism, including the individualist theory of society from Greek antiquity to modern social science. It is a comprehensive and systematic treatment of methodological individualism in all its manifestations.
| Author | : Steven Lukes |
| Publisher | : ECPR Press |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0954796667 |
Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticise and by those who praise Western societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in search of the emergence of 'the individual', by anthropologists claiming that there are different, culturally shaped conceptions of the individual or 'person', by philosophers debating what form social science explanations should take and by political theorists defending liberal principles. In this classic text, Steven Lukes discusses what 'individualism' has meant in various national traditions and across different provinces of thought, analysing it into its component unit-ideas and doctrines. He further argues that it now plays a malign ideological role, for it has come to evoke a socially-constructed body of ideas whose illusory unity is deployed to suggest that redistributive policies are neither feasible nor desirable and to deny that there are institutional alternatives to the market.
| Author | : John O'Neill |
| Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : |
O'Neill, J. Scientism, historicism and the problem of rationality.--Hayek, F.A. From Scientism and the study of society.--Popper, K.R. From The poverty of historicism.--Brodbeck, M. On the philosophy of the social sciences.--Gewirth, A. Subjectivism and objectivism in the social sciences.--Rudner, R.S. Philosophy and social science.--Gewirth, A. Can men change the laws of social science?--Watkins, J.W.N. Ideal types and historical explanation.--Watkins, J.W.N. Historical explanation in the social sciences.--Watkins, J.W.N. Methodological individualism: a reply.--Agassi, J. Methodological individualism.--Scott, K.J. Methodological and epistemological individualism.--Mandelbaum, M. Societal facts.--Mandelbaum, M. Societal laws.--Gellner, E.A. Explanations in history.--Goldstein, L.J. The inadequacy of the principle of methodological individualism.--Goldstein, L.J. Two theses of methodological individualism.--Brodbeck, M. Methodological individualisms: definition and reduction.--Danto, A.C. Methodological individualism and methodological socialism.--Bibliography (p. 339-346).
| Author | : Anthony P. Alessandrini |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 1953 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sahotra Sarkar |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 1012 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0415939275 |
The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).
| Author | : Johan Hjort |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-07-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781019891117 |
This groundbreaking work offers a visionary new approach to science and the scientific method. Filled with fascinating insights and thought-provoking arguments, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of science and the quest for knowledge. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
