The Flight From Reality In The Human Sciences
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The Flight From Reality In The Human Sciences
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Author : Ian Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-09
The Flight From Reality In The Human Sciences written by Ian Shapiro and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-09 with Social Science categories.
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.
Interpretation In Social Life Social Science And Marketing
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Author : John O'Shaughnessy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-05-07
Interpretation In Social Life Social Science And Marketing written by John O'Shaughnessy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-07 with Business & Economics categories.
'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that provide the foundation for clear thinking about social phenomena. In his new book, John O’Shaughnessy familiarises the reader with the nature of interpretation and its importance in social life, decision making in social science enquiries and consumer marketing, thus offering a multidisciplinary approach to problems of bias and uncertainty. Thus, this book is novel in its outlook and comprehensive in its approach. Whereas past studies in interpretation have focused on hermeneutical methods, O’Shaughnessy goes further considering the role of interpretation in social interactions, in undertaking scientific work, in the use of statistics, in causal analysis, in consumer evaluations of products and artifacts and in interpreting problematic situations together with the corresponding biases arising from emotional happiness and the concepts employed.
The University In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Yehuda Elkana
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-30
The University In The Twenty First Century written by Yehuda Elkana and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with Education categories.
This volume addresses the broad spectrum of challenges confronting today?s universities. Elkana and Kl”pper question the very idea and purposes of universities, especially as viewed through curriculum?what is taught, and pedagogy?how it is taught. The reforms recommended in the book focus on undergraduate or bachelor degree programs in all areas of study, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences, technical fields, as well as law, medicine, and other professions. The core thesis of this book rests on the emergence of a ?New Enlightenment. This will require a revolution in curriculum and teaching methods in order to translate the academic philosophy of global contextualism into universal practice or application. Are universities willing to revamp teaching in order to foster critical thinking that would serve students their entire lives? This book calls for universities to restructure administratively to become truly integrated, rather than remaining collections of autonomous agencies more committed to competition among themselves than cooperation in the larger interest of learning. ÿ
Encyclopedia Of Case Study Research
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Author : Albert J. Mills
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2010
Encyclopedia Of Case Study Research written by Albert J. Mills and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
This is the authoritative reference work in the field. An interdisciplinary set, it investigates the extensive history, design and methods of case study research.
Tikkun
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Tikkun written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Jews categories.
The Flight From Science And Reason
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Author : Paul R. Gross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Flight From Science And Reason written by Paul R. Gross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Religion and science categories.
"Evidence of a flight from reason is as old as human record-keeping: the fact of it certainly goes back an even longer way. Flight from science specifically, among the forms of rational inquiry, goes back as far as science itself... But rejection of reason is now a pattern to be found in most branches of scholarship and in all the learned professions."--from the introduction In the widely acclaimed Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt offered a spirited response to the "science bashers," raising serious questions about the growing criticism of scientific practice from humanists and social scientists on the academic left. Now, in The Flight from Science and Reason, Gross and Levitt are joined by Martin W. Lewis to bring together a diverse and distinguished group of scholars, scientists, and experts to engage these questions from a wide variety of perspectives. The authors take on critics of science whose views range from moderate to extreme, from social constructivists to deconstructionists, from creationists and feminists to Afro-centrists. They discuss the rise of "alternative medicine" and radical environmentalism (here skewered as "ecosentimentalism"). They explain why the "uncertainty principle" does not work as a metaphor for ambiguity, and why "chaos theory" cannot be invoked without an understanding of mathematics. Throughout, they grapple with the paradox inherent in arguing with opponents who contend that reason itself, and thus logic, is suspect. Distributed for the New York Academy of Sciences
The New Atlantis
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The New Atlantis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Technology categories.
The Flight From Reality
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Author : Clarence Buford Carson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Flight From Reality written by Clarence Buford Carson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An updated version of material that appeared serially in the Freeman from 1964-66. Bibliographical footnotes.
Encyclopedia Of Case Study Research L Z
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Author : Albert J. Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Encyclopedia Of Case Study Research L Z written by Albert J. Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Case method categories.
American Book Publishing Record
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
American Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American literature categories.