What kinds of knowledge do international relations theories seek? How do they search for it and claim to have found it? Lebow uses his answers to these questions to say something important about the theory project in IR, and in the social sciences more generally.
What kinds of knowledge do international relations theories seek? How do they search for it and claim to have found it? Lebow uses his answers to these questions to say something important about the theory project in IR, and in the social sciences more generally.
Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory at King's College, London. He is author or co-author of more than 40 scholarly books addressing international relations, comparative politics, political theory, political psychology, history, classics, and philosophy of science. Among his recent books are The Rise and Fall of Political Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Reason and Cause: Social Science in a Social World (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Introduction 2. What is knowledge? 3. Positivism and interpretivism 4. Positivism: Correlational research 5. Positivism: Experiments 6. Positivism: Rationalism 7. Interpretivism: Causal narratives 8. Interpretivism: Practice turn 9. Counterfactuals 10. Verification vs. Falsification 11. Causal and non-causal narratives 12. Reason 13. Cause 14. The causal paradox 15. Mechanisms 16. International relations as an ethical practice.
Preface 1. Introduction 2. What is knowledge? 3. Positivism and interpretivism 4. Positivism: Correlational research 5. Positivism: Experiments 6. Positivism: Rationalism 7. Interpretivism: Causal narratives 8. Interpretivism: Practice turn 9. Counterfactuals 10. Verification vs. Falsification 11. Causal and non-causal narratives 12. Reason 13. Cause 14. The causal paradox 15. Mechanisms 16. International relations as an ethical practice.
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