Amitabha Das Gupta

Meaning, Agency and the Making of a Social World (eBook, ePUB)

Themes in the Philosophy of Social Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the complex nature of the social world and presents a philosophy of social science. It shows that a systematic philosophical engagement with the social world may be conceived in terms of three basic concerns - the epistemic, the methodological, and the ethical.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429534379
• Artikelnr.: 56840855

Autorenporträt

Amitabha Das Gupta is former Professor of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, India. He has published extensively in the areas of philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics and philosophy of social science. He has held several research and teaching positions both in India and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: A Three-Layered Approach to Social
Science Part I. Our Epistemic Engagement with the World 1. Reconstruction
of the Scientific View of the World and the Revival of Human Subject 2.
Historicity: A Foundation for Scientific Knowledge and Philosophical
Understanding 3. Historicity as the Process of Understanding Science: A
Two-Level Reflection Part II. Social Science in Its Methodological
Engagement 4. Meaning, Human Action and the Nature of Social Explanation
5. Meaning-Embedded Nature of Social Reality: The Two Contrastive
Approaches 6. Text: The Common Paradigm for Social and Literary Theory 7.
Scientific Methodology and the Overcoming of Fact/Value Dichotomy 8. Marx
on Fact/Value Dichotomy and the Idea of a Unified Science 9. Objectivity or
Solidarity? The Limits of Relativism in Social Science Part III. Social
Science in Its Ethical Engagement 10. Phron¿sis and the Ethical Basis of
Social Science 11. On the Primitive Nature of Human Agency 12. How does
Human Agency Function? A Normative Conceptualization 13. Change,
Development and a Theory of Social Science