Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences: A Case for Methodological Pluralism

Paul A Roth's book examines an important controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences that has developed since the demise of logical positivism and its conception of rationality. Roth contends that this controversy-a dispute over the canons of rationality-is the product of the mistaken...

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1. Verfasser: Roth, Paul A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:Paul A Roth's book examines an important controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences that has developed since the demise of logical positivism and its conception of rationality. Roth contends that this controversy-a dispute over the canons of rationality-is the product of the mistaken belief in methodological exclusivism. Drawing on work in contemporary epistemology by W. V. O. Quine, Richard Rorty, and Paul Feyerabend, he argues that no single theory of human behavior has methodological priority; indeed, the existence of a plethora of theories for the study of human behavior, he believes, is an inevitable consequence of our epistemic situation
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (263 pages)
ISBN:9781501746215
DOI:10.7591/9781501746215

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