The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised up the demons of relativism, subjectivism and sociologism to haunt the once calm precincts of objectivity and realism. Though these disturbances intruded upon what had seemed to be the logically well-ordered domain of the philoso phy of the natural sciences, they were no news to the social sciences. There, the messy business of human action, volition, decision, the considerations of practical purposes and social values, the role of ideology and the problem of rationality, had long conspired to defeat logical-reconstructionist programs. The attempt to tarne the social sciences to the harness of a strict hypothetico deductive model of explanation failed. Within the social sciences, phenome nological, Marxist, hermeneuticist, action-theoretical approaches vied in attempting to capture the distinctiveness of human phenomena. In fact, the philosophy of the natural sciences, even in its 'hard' forms, has itself become infected with the increasing reflection upon the role of such social-scientific categories, in the attempt to understand the nature of the scientific enterprise.
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Karin Nickelsen

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Springer London, Limited

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Dordrecht, 1983

Place of publication not identified, 2010

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2013

Netherlands, Netherlands

Dec 22, 2010

1983, 2013

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Source title: Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Ideology and Objectivity....Pages 1-17
Toward a Logic of Historical Constitution....Pages 19-52
Beyond Causality in The Social Sciences: Reciprocity as a Model of Non-Exploitative Social Relations....Pages 53-88
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Science or, n Dogmas of Empiricism....Pages 89-106
Realism and the Supposed Poverty of Sociological Theories....Pages 107-121
The Role and Status of the Rationality Principle in the Social Sciences....Pages 123-151
Marxian Paradigms Versus Microeconomic Structures....Pages 153-201
Paradise Not Surrendered: Jewish Reactions to Copernicus and the Growth of Modern Science....Pages 203-225
The Peculiar Evolutionary Strategy of Man....Pages 227-248
Technologies as Forms of Life....Pages 249-263
Back Matter....Pages 265-270

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