The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Blackwell Philosophy Guides Ser.)
Contributors: Stephen P. Turner (Editor); Paul Andrew Roth (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780631215370
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Social theory; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Sociology - Social Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCES_PHILOSOPHY; Social Science / General; General; Reference; Social sciences
First sentence: The subject of this chapter will be the story of the problem of cause and teleology in the social sciences up to the early years of the twentieth century, especially as it appears in the thinking of several of the major founding figures of disciplinary social science.