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x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of
methodologi cal individualism, a debate which continues to this
day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in
contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general
area of philosophy of social science would be considered complete
unless they contained at least one of Watkins's many contributions
to the discussion of this issue. In 1957 Watkins published the
flrst of a series of three papers (1957b, 1958d and 196Oa) in which
he tried to codify and rehabilitate metaphysics within the
Popperian philosophy, placing it somewhere between the analytic and
the empirical. He thus signalled the emergence of an important
implica tion of Popper's thought that had not to that point been
stressed by Sir Karl himself, and which marked off his followers
from the antimetaphysical ideas of the regnant logical positivists.
In 1965 years of work in political philosophy and in the history of
philosophy in the seventeenth century were brought to fruition in
Watkins's widely cited and admired Hobbes's System of Ideas (1965a,
second edition 1973d). This book is an important contribution not
just to our understanding of Hobbes's political thinking, but,
perhaps more importantly, to our understanding of the way in which
a system of ideas is constituted and applied. Watkins built on
earlier work in developing an account of Hobbes's ideas in which
was revealed and clarifled the unity of Hobbes's metaphysical,
epistemological and political ideas."
In identifying that the essential tension is the balance between
conservative and innovative approaches in the development of
knowledge -- tried-and tested or new directions -- Kuhn pointed out
that these two attitudes are both appropriate. This study adds to
this picture the social and psychological dynamics that underpin
any such balancing.
x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of
methodologi cal individualism, a debate which continues to this
day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in
contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general
area of philosophy of social science would be considered complete
unless they contained at least one of Watkins's many contributions
to the discussion of this issue. In 1957 Watkins published the
flrst of a series of three papers (1957b, 1958d and 196Oa) in which
he tried to codify and rehabilitate metaphysics within the
Popperian philosophy, placing it somewhere between the analytic and
the empirical. He thus signalled the emergence of an important
implica tion of Popper's thought that had not to that point been
stressed by Sir Karl himself, and which marked off his followers
from the antimetaphysical ideas of the regnant logical positivists.
In 1965 years of work in political philosophy and in the history of
philosophy in the seventeenth century were brought to fruition in
Watkins's widely cited and admired Hobbes's System of Ideas (1965a,
second edition 1973d). This book is an important contribution not
just to our understanding of Hobbes's political thinking, but,
perhaps more importantly, to our understanding of the way in which
a system of ideas is constituted and applied. Watkins built on
earlier work in developing an account of Hobbes's ideas in which
was revealed and clarifled the unity of Hobbes's metaphysical,
epistemological and political ideas."
In identifying that the 'essential tension' is the balance between
conservative and innovative approaches in the development of
knowledge - tried-and tested or new directions - Kuhn pointed out
that these two attitudes are both appropriate. This study adds to
this picture the social and psychological dynamics that underpin
any such balancing.
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