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Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
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Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 71
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The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and
history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist'
philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with
historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought
in the natural sciences, and has raised up the demons of
relativism, subjectivism and sociologism to haunt the once calm
precincts of objectivity and realism. Though these disturbances
intruded upon what had seemed to be the logically well-ordered
domain of the philoso phy of the natural sciences, they were no
news to the social sciences. There, the messy business of human
action, volition, decision, the considerations of practical
purposes and social values, the role of ideology and the problem of
rationality, had long conspired to defeat logical-reconstructionist
programs. The attempt to tarne the social sciences to the harness
of a strict hypothetico deductive model of explanation failed.
Within the social sciences, phenome nological, Marxist,
hermeneuticist, action-theoretical approaches vied in attempting to
capture the distinctiveness of human phenomena. In fact, the
philosophy of the natural sciences, even in its 'hard' forms, has
itself become infected with the increasing reflection upon the role
of such social-scientific categories, in the attempt to understand
the nature of the scientific enterprise."
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