Philosophical Foundations Of The Three Sociologies (rle Social Theory) (routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) (volume 51)
by Ted Benton /
2014 / English / PDF
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An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will
be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the
social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to
positivist and empiricist accounts of the
An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will
be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the
social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to
positivist and empiricist accounts of thephysical
physical
sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and
anti-naturalism in the
sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and
anti-naturalism in thesocial
social sciences in new terms.
Recent materialist and realist philosophies of science make
possible a defence of naturalism which does not make concessions
to positivism and which recognizes the force of several of the
anti-positivist arguments from the main anti-naturalist
(neo-Kantian) tradition.
sciences in new terms.
Recent materialist and realist philosophies of science make
possible a defence of naturalism which does not make concessions
to positivism and which recognizes the force of several of the
anti-positivist arguments from the main anti-naturalist
(neo-Kantian) tradition.
The author presents a critical evaluation of empiricist and
positivist theories of knowledge, and investigates some classic
attempts at using them to provide the philosophical foundation
for a scientific sociology. He takes the Kantian critique of
empiricism as the starting point for the main anti-positivist and
anti-naturalist philosophical approaches to the social studies.
He goes on to investigate the inadequacy of post-Kantian
arguments from Rickert, Weber, Winch and others, both against
The author presents a critical evaluation of empiricist and
positivist theories of knowledge, and investigates some classic
attempts at using them to provide the philosophical foundation
for a scientific sociology. He takes the Kantian critique of
empiricism as the starting point for the main anti-positivist and
anti-naturalist philosophical approaches to the social studies.
He goes on to investigate the inadequacy of post-Kantian
arguments from Rickert, Weber, Winch and others, both againstnon
non-positivist forms of naturalism and as the possible
source of a distinctive philosophical foundation for the social
studies.
-positivist forms of naturalism and as the possible
source of a distinctive philosophical foundation for the social
studies.
The book concludes with a critical investigation of the Marxian
tradition and an attempt to establish the possibility of a
materialist and realist defence of the project of a natural
science of history, which escapes the fundamental flaws of both
positivist and neo-Kantian attempts at philosophical foundation.
The book concludes with a critical investigation of the Marxian
tradition and an attempt to establish the possibility of a
materialist and realist defence of the project of a natural
science of history, which escapes the fundamental flaws of both
positivist and neo-Kantian attempts at philosophical foundation.
