| Author | : Michael Martin |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 818 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780262631518 |
the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s
Social Science
| Author | : Gerard Delanty |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780816631278 |
It is argued that the conception of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. The crucial challenge facing social science is a question of its public role: growing reflexivity in society has implications for the social production of knowledge and is bringing into question the separation of expert systems from other forms of knowledge.
Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
| Author | : May Brodbeck |
| Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 810 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Social sciences |
| ISBN | : |
"Selected bibliography": pages 737-768. Bibliographical footnotes.
Readings in the Philosophy of Technology
| Author | : David M. Kaplan |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2009-10-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 074256536X |
Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. Students will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human nature, computers, science, food, and animals.
Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science
| Author | : E. D. Klemke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
This popular reader has been vastly updated with ten stimulating new selections on the natural and the social sciences: feminism; postmodernism, relativism, and science; confirmation, acceptance, and theory; explanatory unification; and science and values. Retaining the best essays from the previous editions, the editors have added important new pieces to maintain this influential text's relevance.
Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism
| Author | : Theodore Schick |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999-12-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780767402774 |
This anthology traces the development of thinking in the philosophy of science from logical positivism to the present. Subsequent articles often clarify or critique preceding ones. As a result, students get a sense of how philosophical theories develop in response to one another.
Scientific Inquiry
| Author | : Robert Klee |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
An anthology of contemporary and classical readings in the philosophy of science aimed at undergraduates in philosophy and science. Focuses on the main issues in philosophy of science: the structure of theories, models of scientific explanation, reductionism, the objectivity of science, and the proper interpretation of mature scientific theories.
Social and Political Philosophy
| Author | : John Somerville |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2012-09-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 030782635X |
An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.
