The philosophy of social science : new perspectives
Harlow, England; New York
Prentice Hall
2000
ix, 256 p
مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. The importance of science and the importance of understanding what science is -- 2. Rationalism and empiricism: science's weak foundations -- 3. Positivism and its problems: seeing is not all there is to believing -- 4. Explanations of social scientific understanding and social scientific understandings of natural scientific explanations -- 5. Hermeneutics and science: 'the linguistic turn' -- 6. Feminism and science: a woman's place is the more objective space -- 7. Postmodernism: if you say there are no right or wrong answers and I say you're wrong, am I right...or wrong- 8. Hyperreality and critical realism, simulacra and social science