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The Explanation of Social Action - With a new preface by the author (Paperback)
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The Explanation of Social Action - With a new preface by the author (Paperback)
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The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the
conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something
in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the
traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no
clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and
expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the
social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem
as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of
answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first
person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by
attempts to explain human action in "causal" terms. Martin, instead
of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about
the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment.
He argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of
social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory. This
paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects
The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are
important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the
development of computational social science.
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