In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian
problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the
modern problem of the freedom of human agency in the natural and
cultural worlds of deterministic structures; it is this version of
the freedom and determinism issue which centres the Science and
Humanism debates, and thus marks the history of the social
sciences.
Anthony Giddens is credited with providing the new vocabulary of
?structure? and ?agency? in order to formulate the problem of
freedom and determinism in those terms, thus making this
formulation fruitful. In this book, Charles R. Varela proposes that
Kant originally formulated this problem, and makes a series of
wide-ranging and groundbreaking observations based on Kant's
metaphysics of realism which enables Varela to propose a solution
to the structure/agency problem.
Subjects revisited in this book include:
? "Giddens? Call"
? The stalemate of the social and psychological sciences
? The determinist tradition of modern science
? Postmodernism
This breadth of themes, drawn together by Varela with his work
on Kant, fully realizes Giddens? principle that human agency is a
real causal force. It is Kant's conception of causal power that is
the causal force Giddens' has called for.
Science For Humanism: The Recovery of Human Agency will be of
particular interest to students of humanism and therefore realism,
Kant and Giddens.
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