Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences

Lee C McIntyre (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31662-4 (ISBN)

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Pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, Lee McIntyre, in this first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant.

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. By pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, McIntyre shows that the barriers to nom

Lee C. McIntyre is assistant professor of philosophy at Colgate University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-31662-5 / 0367316625
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31662-4 / 9780367316624
Zustand	Neuware