Flight from Certainty
Author : Anne Luyat
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789042015852
Author : Anne Luyat
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789042015852
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Archery
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Author : Horace A. Ford
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Archery
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Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Shipping
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Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140082690X
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time.
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Bills, Legislative
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Birds
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