Beyond Relativism - Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism (Paperback)

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of social science.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
Release date:	2012
First published:	2002
Authors:	Cynthia Lins Hamlin
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-52399-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Intelligence Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-415-52399-0
Barcode:	9780415523998

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