Lee C Mcintyre

Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, this book upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429967849
• Artikelnr.: 53275531

Autorenporträt

Mcintyre, Lee C

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Nomological Ideal
2 Fundamental Objections to Social Scientific Laws
3 Practical Objections to Social Scientific Laws
4 The Role of Laws in Scientific Understanding: The Case of Evolutionary Biology
5 A Question of Relevance
6 Metaphysical Interlude
7 Prospects and Limitations of a Nomological Social Science

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Preface -- The Nomological Ideal -- Fundamental Objections to Social Scientific Laws -- Practical Objections to Social Scientific Laws -- The Role of Laws in Scientific Understanding: The Case of Evolutionary Biology -- A Question of Relevance -- Metaphysical Interlude -- Prospects and Limitations of a Nomological Social Science