The philosophy of the social sciences /
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| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a H61 |b .P64 1978 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Pratt, Vernon, |d 1943- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The philosophy of the social sciences / |c Vernon Pratt. |
| 260 | 0 | |a London : |b Methuen, |c 1978. | |
| 300 | |a x, 189 p. : |b ill. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 504 | |a Bibliography: p. [171]-183. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Man as a Machine. Introduction; Cartesian mechanism; Determinism; A religious objection; An ethical objection; Freedom; Indeterminism; Materialism -- 3. Consciousness. Introduction; Dualism; The body-mind relationship; Other minds; The argument from analogy; Introspectionism; Logical behaviorism; Ryle's analysis of motive; Objections to logical behaviourism; Psychological behaviourism; The identity hypothesis; Concluding remark -- 4. Man as an Animal. Introduction; Physical autonomy; Instinctive and learnt behaviour; Trial-and-error and insight; Theorizing; Non-human language; Human language; Learning from others; Tradition; Concluding remarks -- 5. Meaningful Behaviour. Introduction; Intentions; Sense; Action; Actions and rules; Rules, words and understanding -- 6. The Framework of Experience. Introduction: a visual analogy; Experience structured by concepts; Anthropological understanding; The experience of time; Theories in science; The relativity of truth; The relativity of rationality; The relativity of logic; Some difficulties -- 7. The Interpretation of Experience. Introduction; The belief system of the Azande; The principle of causality; Concluding remarks -- 8. Explanation and Prediction. Introduction; The covering-law thesis; The probabilistic modification; Pyramidal structure of science; Prediction; Social study and general laws; Social study as yielding control; Predictive power; Realism of theoretical assumptions -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 9. Explanation and Understanding. Introduction; R. D. Laing; Freud; The intelligibility of actions; One use of models -- 10. Acquiring Scientific Knowledge. Introduction; Inductivism; Hypothetico-deductivism; Science as guessing; Anti-scientistic approaches -- 11. Social Study and Objectivity. Introduction; The autonomy of values; Value judgements and arbitrariness; Relativism; Social study and value freedom; Possible mechanisms; Naturalist ethics -- 12. Social Study and Bias. Difficultly of social study; Controlled experimentation; Ethical constraints; Ideology; The ethics of usury; The rationality of unlimited desires; Possible mechanisms; Bias in social study -- 13. Society and Its Members. Reductionism; Its significance; Society as an individual; Durkheim on the reality of society; A parallel in biological thought -- 14. Society as a Working System. Introduction; Purpose; Goal-directed behaviour; The source of functional organization; Society and natural selection; Society as an agent; Group-oriented motivation; Concluding remarks -- 15. Society Evolving. Introduction; Some examples; W. W. Rostow; Evolutionism in general; Criticisms; Political implications; Marxism; The mechanism of historical change; Possible interpretations; Closing remarks. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Philosophy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social sciences. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Pratt, Vernon, 1943- |t Philosophy of the social sciences. |d London : Methuen, 1978 |w (OCoLC)562623538 |
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