Author: Will DurantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Philosophy and the Social Problem
Author: Will DurantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Philosophy and the Social Problem
Author: Will DurantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New Philosophy of Social Science
Author: James BohmanPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745614083
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this book offers an original introduction to the philosophy of social science, emphasising new post-empiricist approaches.
Social Reality
Author: Finn CollinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134754078
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social science, but also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin, in this concise guide, asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive of it? Is there a difference between the kind of existence attributed to social and to physical facts - do physical facts enjoy a more independent existence? To what extent is social reality a matter of social convention. Finn Collin considers a number of traditional doctrines which support the constructivist position that social reality is generated by our 'interpretation' of it. He also examines the way social facts are contingent upon the meaning invested in them by social agents; the nature of social convention; the status of social facts as symbolic; the ways in which socially shared language is claimed to generate the reality described, as well as the limitations of some of the over-ambitious popular arguments for social constructivism.
Finding Philosophy in Social Science
Author: Mario BungePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300066067
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Rousseau
Author: John CharvetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521114868
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a critical study of the political and social ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Charvet analyses Rousseau's arguments in his three main works, The Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Emile, and The Social Contract. The aim is to show how Rousseau's ideas are interrelated and how their development is governed by presuppositions which entail their ultimate incoherence. he shows that the consequences is a corrupt and destructive view of human society and human relations. These presuppositions are implicit in terms of which social relations are to be rethought. What is good about nature is that in it each individual can pursue his own good innocently without regard to others. It is the attempt to translate this natural egoism into social terms that, Charvet argues, produces the incoherent and destructive view of human society. This importance of the book lies in the originality and the implications of Charvet's critical analysis of this attempted translation, and thus of Rousseau's social philosophy in general.
Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science
Author: Michael MartinPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262631518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s
PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Author: RICHARD S. RUDNERA Social Theory of Freedom
Author: Mariam ThalosPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317394941
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity. Thalos argues that whether a person is free (in any context) depends upon a certain relationship of fit between that agent’s conception of themselves (both present and future), on the one hand, and the facts of their circumstances, on the other. Since relationships of fit are broadly logical, freedom is a logic—it is the logic of fit between one’s aspirations and one’s circumstances, what Thalos calls the logic of agency. The logic of agency, once fleshed out, becomes a broadly social and political theory that encompasses one’s self-conceptions as well as how these self-conceptions are generated, together with how they fit with the circumstances of one’s life. The theory of freedom proposed in this volume is fundamentally a political one.
Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
Author: Jerome R. RavetzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000159841
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.