Author: John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Daniel Little
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783487410
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Philosophy matters for the social sciences. Our world faces ever more complex and hazardous problems and, social science ontology and methods need to be adequate to the changing nature of the social realm. Imagination and new ways of thinking are crucial to the social sciences. Based on Daniel Little's popular blog, this book provides an accessible introduction to the latest developments and debates in the philosophy of social science. Each chapter addresses a leading issue in the philosophy of the social sciences today. Little advocates for an 'actor-centred sociology', endorsing the idea of meso-level causation and proposing a solution to the problem of 'mechanisms or powers?'. The book draws significant conclusions from the facts of complexity and heterogeneity in the social world. The book develops a series of arguments that serve to provide a new framework for the philosophy of social science through deep engagement with social scientists and philosophers in the field. Topics covered include: - the heterogeneity and plasticity of the social world; - the complexity of social causation; - the nuts and bolts of causal mechanisms; - the applicability of the theory of causal powers to the social world; - the intellectual coherence of the perspective of scientific realism in application to social science.

Author: Nigel Clark
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509526382
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself. How should the social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions about the social: to understand it as the product of a dynamic planet, self-organizing over deep time. They outline ‘planetary social thought’: a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our home planet. Presenting a social theory of the planetary, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in humanity’s relation to the changing Earth.

Author: Jürgen Habermas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745694136
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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In this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns. He examines, among other things, the traditional division between the natural sciences and the social sciences; the characteristics of social action and the implications of theories of language for social enquiry; and the nature, tasks and limitations of hermeneutics. Habermas' analysis of these and other themes is, as always, rigorous, perceptive and constructive. This brilliant study succeeds in highlighting the distinctive characteristics of the social sciences and in outlining the nature of, and prospects for, critical theory today.

Author: Samuel Porter Putnam
Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: John Cunningham Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415310666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: George P. Richardson
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ISBN: 9781883823467
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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This is a study of a method of thinking in the social sciences known as the loop concept. This concept underlies the notions of feedback and circular causality. The author attempts to illuminate the significance of classical and contemporary feedback thinking in social science and social policy.

Author: John M. Robertson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732672131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 589

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Reproduction of the original: A Short History of Freethought by John M. Robertson

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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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