Abstract
In presenting their alternatives to King, Keohane, and Verba (KKV), Friedrich Kratochwil, Ted Hopf, and Brian Pollins bring out several variations on the interpretivist and scientific approaches to the study of politics. They consider questions in the theory of knowledge (what constitutes and justifies knowledge claims and valid forms of inference), metaphysics (the nature of truth, causality, and the real world), methodology (especially the appropriate degree of pluralism), and the merits of naturalism, that is, the scientific approach to the study of politics.1 These topics are discussed in the sections that follow.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bernstein, Steven, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Stein, and Steven Weber. 2000. “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems: Adapting Social Science to an Unpredictable World,” European Journal of International Relations 6: 43–76.
Bhaskar, Roy. 1975. A Realist Theory of Science. London: Verso.
—. 1998. The Possibility of Naturalism. Third Edition. London: Routledge.
Bohman, James. 1993. The New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bonjour, Laurence. 1985. The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Chernoff, Fred. 2002. “Scientific Realism as a Metatheory of International Relations” International Studies Quarterly 46: 189–207.
—. 2004. “The Study of Democratic Peace and Progress in International Relations.” International Studies Review 6: 49–77.
—. 2005. The Power of International Theory: Re-Forging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiryb. London: Routledge.
—. 2007. Theory and Metatheory in International Relations: Contending Accounts and Concepts. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Chisholm, Roderick M. 1957. Perceiving: A Philosophical Study. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Chernoff, Fred. 1966,1989. The Theory of Knowledge. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Dretske, Fred I. 1969. Seeing and Knowing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Duhem, Pierre. 1954. The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Firth, Roderick. 1998. In Defense of Radical Empiricism: Essays and Lectures. Edited by John Troyer. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Foucault, Michel. 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge. Trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Pantheon Books.
Follesdal, Dagfinn. 1979. “Hermeneutics and the Hypothetico-Deductive Method,” Dialectia 33: 319–36.
Hanson, Norwood Russell. 1958. Patterns of Discovery. London: Cambridge University Press.
Harré, Rom. 1986. Varieties of Scientific Realism. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hollis, Martin, and Steve Smith. 1991. Explaining and Understanding International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
James, William. 1907/1975. Pragmatism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kirkham, Richard L. 1992. Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Kuhn, Thomas S. 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kyberg, Henry E., Jr. 1990. Science and Reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
Little, Daniel. 1998. Microfoundations, Method, and Causation. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
McClosky, Dierdre N. 1998. The Rhetoric of Economics. Second edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1932. The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volume 2, Elements of Logic. Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Popper, Karl. 1968. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Second edition. New York: Harper Torchbook.
—. 1963. Conjectures and Refutations. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Quine, Williard Van Ormand. 1953. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” in From a Logical Point of View. Edited by W.V.O. Quine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: 20–46.
Ramsey, Frank. 1990. “Facts and Propositions,” in Philosophical Papers. Edited by D.H. Mellor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 31–51.
Redman, Deborah. 1991. Economics and the Philosophy of Science. New York: Oxford University Press.
Russell, Bertrand. 1918. “On the Notion of Cause,” In Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, Edited by B. Russell. New York: Longmans.
Sellars, Wilfred S. 1954. “The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind:” In Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1, Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psycho-Analysis. Edited by Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
—. 1972. “Givenness and Explanatory Coherence?” Journal of Philosophy 70: 612–24.
Small, Melvin and J. David Singer. 1982. Resort to Arms. Los Angeles, Sage.
Taylor, Charles. 1985. Human Agency and Language. Philosophical Papers, Vol. I. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Williams, Bernard. 1979. “Internal and External Reasons,” in Rational Action. Edited by Ross Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Winch, Peter. 1990. The Idea of a Social Science. Second edition. London: Routledge.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2007 Richard Ned Lebow and Mark Irving Lichbach
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Chernoff, F. (2007). Methodological Pluralism and the Limits of Naturalism in the Study of Politics. In: Lebow, R.N., Lichbach, M.I. (eds) Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations. New Visions in Security. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607507_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607507_5
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-4039-7661-1
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-60750-7
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)