Philosophy of Social Science
Subtitle: Philosophical Issues in Social Thought (Traditions in Social Theory)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780333774984
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Social theory; Sociology; Philosophy; Epistemology; Methodology; Social Science / Methodology; Mind & Body; Social sciences
First sentence: In this chapter we will discuss the main outlines of the empiricist account of natural science, and then go on to consider why and how the positivist tradition has tried to apply it to social scientific explanation.