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Author: Timothy Rutzou
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 178756603X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”
Author: Timothy Rutzou
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1787566056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”
Author: Berth Danermark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-11-22
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0203996240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.
Author: Peter T. Manicas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-06-15
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13: 1139457063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical sciences and offers a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective. He argues that the fundamental goal of theory in both the natural and social sciences is not, contrary to widespread opinion, prediction and control, or the explanation of events (including behaviour). Instead, theory aims to provide an understanding of the processes which, together, produce the contingent outcomes of experience. Offering a host of concrete illustrations and examples of critical ideas and issues, this accessible book will be of interest to students of the philosophy of social science, and social scientists from a range of disciplines.
Author: Frank Pearce
Publisher:
Published: 2007-12
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Realism and the Social Sciences brings together contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, all of whom engage with tenets of critical realism, juxtaposing them with traditional representations of social scientific enquiry.
Author: Douglas V. Porpora
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1107107377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.
Author: William Outhwaite
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 137
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy Bhaskar
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1789603536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, realist position. Since it original publication in 1975, a movement known as 'Critical Realism', which is both intellectually diverse and international in scope, has developed on the basis of key concepts outlined in the text. The book has been hailed in many quarters as a 'Copernican Revolution' in the study of the nature of science, and the implications of its account have been far-reaching for many fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Author: Ilkka Niiniluoto
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1999-12-09
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0191519405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject-matter. Niiniluoto surveys the different varieties of realism in ontology, semantics, epistemology, theory construction, and methodology. He then sets out his own original version, and defends it against competing theories in the philosophy of science. Niiniluoto's critical scientific realism is founded upon the notion of truth as correspondence between language and reality, and characterizes scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness. This makes it possible not only to take seriously, but also to make precise, the troublesome idea that scientific theories typically are false but nevertheless close to the truth.
Author: Mervyn Hartwig
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1317420705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDictionary of Critical Realism fulfils a vital gap in the literature, Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon, thereby making the concepts inaccessible for a wider audience. However, as Hartwig puts it 'Just as the tools of the various skilled trades need to be precision-engineered for specific, interrelated functions, so meta-theory requires concepts honed for specific interrelated tasks: it is impossible to think creatively at that level without them.' This Dictionary seeks to redress this problem; to throw open the important contribution of Critical Realism to a wider audience for the first time, by thoroughly explaining all the key concepts and key developments. It includes 500 entries on these themes, and has contributions from major players in field. However this text does not stop there, it goes further than simply elucidating the concepts and includes a number of essays which use the notions in important areas, thereby demonstrating the appropriate use of the concepts in action to encourage their wider use. This book will become a requisite reference tool for Critical Realist scholars and Philosophers and Social scientists alike will enjoy this vital introduction and explanatory text of the indispensable ideas contained within the dynamic and vibrant school of Critical Realism.
