Rewritten throughout to increase accessibility, this new edition of the popular text retains the achievement of revealing the social sciences enduring relation to the fundamental problems of philosophy while adding new discussions of positivism, European philosophy of history, causation, statistical laws, quantitative models, and postempiricist social science, along with a completely updated literature guide that keys chapters to widely anthologized papers. }This is an expanded and thoroughly revised edition of the widely adopted introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences. Ranging from cultural anthropology to mathematical economics, Alexander Rosenberg leads the reader through behaviorism, naturalism, interpretativism about human action, and macrosocial scientific perspectives, illuminating the motivation and strategy of each.Rewritten throughout to increase accessibility, this new edition retains the remarkable achievement of revealing the social sciences enduring relation to the fundamental problems of philosophy.
It includes new discussions of positivism, European philosophy of history, causation, statistical laws, quantitative models, and postempiricist social science, along with a completely updated literature guide that keys chapters to widely anthologized papers. }
- ISBN10 0813326605
- ISBN13 9780813326603
- Publish Date 12 October 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English