Book Description
Contains selections representing several distinctive philosophical traditions.
Author : Dorothy M. Emmet
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Contains selections representing several distinctive philosophical traditions.
Author : Dorothy Mary Emmet
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN : 9780333105221
Author : Dorothy Mary Emmet
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release :
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : D. Emmet
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN :
Author : John Mingers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and philosophies. This has not been incorporated into the literature of the field. Until now. Collecting major social theorists and philosophers into one volume, Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems provides a historical and critical analysis of each that is both authoritative and firmly focused on practical relevance to IS. The result is an insightful text for researchers, academics and students that will provide an up-to-date starting point for those considering alternative approaches.
Author : Barry Barnes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780485114041
A systematic account of the importance of sociology for the understanding of scientific knowledge. Applying sociological analysis to specific historical case studies, the work attempts to show how the sociological approach is an essential complement to interpretations of scientific knowledge from other disciplines, and a necessary contribution to obtaining a scientific understanding of science. This book should be of interest to students in the social sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and to academics interested in knowledge, epistemology, the history of ideas and the "new" sociology of science.>
Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317651189
How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science are dependent on social action only in a very special and limited sense. In Science and the Sociology of Knowledge Michael Mulkay's first aim is to identify the philosophical assumptions which have led to this view of science as special; and to present a systematic critique of the standard philosophical account of science, showing that there are no valid epistemological grounds for excluding scientific knowledge from the scope of sociological analysis. The rest of the book is devoted to developing a preliminary interpretation of the social creation of scientific knowledge. The processes of knowledge-creation are delineated through a close examination of recent case studies of scientific developments. Dr Mulkay argues that knowledge is produced by means of negotiation, the outcome of which depends on the participants' use of social as well as technical resources. The analysis also shows how cultural resources are taken over from the broader social milieu and incorporated into the body of certified knowledge; and how, in the political context of society at large, scientists' technical as well as social claims are conditioned and affected by their social position.
Author : Ted Benton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317651421
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 physical sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism in the 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. 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 non-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.