Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science, Paperback - Paul Mattick

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

Reducere. A discussion of the social sciences and of their relation to the physical and biological sciences. Homans believes that these all form a single sci...

Originally published in 1766, the Laoco n has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and p...

Description" Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim w...

Reducere. DescriptionHermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit concern with the subject of the human. This volume outlines the key element...

In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

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Reducere. A groundbreaking logic-based approach to bridging the scientific-constructivist divide in social science The Logic of Social Science offers new pri...

Reducere. Often controversial, always inspired, Jacques Lacan here weighs theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of know...

Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, includin...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philos...

A collection of over sixty extracts from classic works on the philosophy of social science. It highlights the work of some of the influential autho...

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

Providing a conceptually framework for understanding sources of global violence, this title describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent abo...

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

Reducere. MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods require...

Reducere. First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense...

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of D...

Reducere. Dr. Elizabeth A. Stone and Meredith Joelle Charlson combine their college admissions counseling and writing expertise to guide others through the c...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter (Tutor and Musician in Residence, St. John's College) PesicIllustration(s): 46 illus.; 46 Illustrations, u...

Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and ...

DescriptionLibrary education is changing. At a time when librarianship is increasingly seen as part of the information industry, Library and Inform...

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Eckart (University of Tubingen, Germany) GoebelTranslator: James C. WagnerNumber of pages:...

Reducere. The Liberty Fund edition is a modernized translation of Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en g n ral (1755) with a new introducti...

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Reducere. Do you know who - and what - you are? Do you know who you're meant to be? Do you know how to find the answers to questions like these? Knowledge of...

An accessible introduction to the latest developments and debates in the philosophy of social science.

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

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New edition of Judt's Essay on Europe to celebrate his life and works.Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tony JudtNumber of pages: 149P...

The field of science and technology studies has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and po...

A new trade edition of Sartre's magnum opus. First published in 1943, this masterpiece defines the modern condition and still holds relevance for t...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Malthus was a mild-mannered economist who set the world afire in 1798 with this essay on the 'principle of population.' Prompted ...

In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that ...

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Reducere. In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is o...

Develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. This title demonstr...

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A title, in which, the author predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, wherein humans would disregard the limits of natural resources...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gaston BachelardTranslator: Edith And Frederick FarrellAir and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston ...

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.

Reducere. For most of our contemporaries, to speak of modernity is to think immediately of liberty, equality, and democracy—and to assume that all is well. B...

The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-wi...

Reducere. Internationally known and one of the most influential philosophers of his day (and for a time almost a cult figure in France, where his lectures dr...