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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Philosophy of the Social Sciences"”.
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The question of method in social science
The question of method is one of the central issues in the philosophy of the social sciences. A dominant view--positivism--argues that human behavior can be best explained by employing the methods of the natural sciences. Developed initially by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, positivism was …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
This dissertation reconstructs the interactions between German-speaking émigré intellectuals and social scientific debates in the mid-century United States. While classical interpretations often assume émigré thought was founded upon a humanistic rejection of American social scientific method, this …
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The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. Among early 20th century Marxist economists, unequal exchange appeared in Otto …