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Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences

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Editors:
  1. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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  2. Marx W. Wartofsky

    1. Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 71)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Ideology and Objectivity

    • Paul Diesing
    Pages 1-17

  3. Toward a Logic of Historical Constitution

    • Leon J. Goldstein
    Pages 19-52

  4. Beyond Causality in The Social Sciences: Reciprocity as a Model of Non-Exploitative Social Relations

    • Carol C. Gould
    Pages 53-88

  5. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Science or, n Dogmas of Empiricism

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 89-106

  6. Realism and the Supposed Poverty of Sociological Theories

    • I. C. Jarvie
    Pages 107-121

  7. The Role and Status of the Rationality Principle in the Social Sciences

    • Spiro J. Latsis
    Pages 123-151

  8. Marxian Paradigms Versus Microeconomic Structures

    • Werner Leinfellner
    Pages 153-201

  9. Paradise Not Surrendered: Jewish Reactions to Copernicus and the Growth of Modern Science

    • Hillel Levine
    Pages 203-225

  10. The Peculiar Evolutionary Strategy of Man

    • Lawrence Slobodkin
    Pages 227-248

  11. Technologies as Forms of Life

    • Langdon Winner
    Pages 249-263

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 265-270
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The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised up the demons of relativism, subjectivism and sociologism to haunt the once­ calm precincts of objectivity and realism. Though these disturbances intruded upon what had seemed to be the logically well-ordered domain of the philoso­ phy of the natural sciences, they were no news to the social sciences. There, the messy business of human action, volition, decision, the considerations of practical purposes and social values, the role of ideology and the problem of rationality, had long conspired to defeat logical-reconstructionist programs. The attempt to tarne the social sciences to the harness of a strict hypothetico­ deductive model of explanation failed. Within the social sciences, phenome­ nological, Marxist, hermeneuticist, action-theoretical approaches vied in attempting to capture the distinctiveness of human phenomena. In fact, the philosophy of the natural sciences, even in its 'hard' forms, has itself become infected with the increasing reflection upon the role of such social-scientific categories, in the attempt to understand the nature of the scientific enterprise.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences

  • Editors: Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1458-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1454-1Published: 28 February 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8376-0Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1458-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 270

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Epistemology

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