This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge
is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The
contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is
scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What
are the different accounts of how this process takes place? And
what are the dominant critiques of these understandings? It is the
first publication to survey the full range of perspectives
available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant
critiques of scientism. In its second part, the volume applies this
range of perspectives to the research program on the democratic
peace. It shows what we gain by accommodating and enabling dialogue
among the full range of epistemological approaches. The
contributors elaborate and defend the epistemological position of
sociable pluralism as one that seeks to build bridges between soft
positivism, critical theory, and critical realism. The underlying
idea is that if the differences between the various approaches used
by different communities of researchers can be understood more
clearly, this will facilitate meaningful cross-cutting
communication, dialogue, and debate and thereby enable us to
address real-world problems more effectively. This timely and
original work will be of great interest to advanced-level students
and scholars dealing with philosophy of science and methodological
questions in International Relations.
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