Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: problems of structure and action
- 2 Discovering truth: the rationalist way
- 3 Positive science: the empiricist way
- 4 Ants, spiders and bees: a third way?
- 5 Systems and functions
- 6 Games with rational agents
- 7 Understanding social action
- 8 Self and roles
- 9 Explaining and understanding
- 10 A value-neutral social science?
- 11 Rationality and relativism
- 12 Conclusion: two stories to tell
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: problems of structure and action
- 2 Discovering truth: the rationalist way
- 3 Positive science: the empiricist way
- 4 Ants, spiders and bees: a third way?
- 5 Systems and functions
- 6 Games with rational agents
- 7 Understanding social action
- 8 Self and roles
- 9 Explaining and understanding
- 10 A value-neutral social science?
- 11 Rationality and relativism
- 12 Conclusion: two stories to tell
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Philosophy of Social ScienceAn Introduction, pp. i - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994