Understanding Human Action: Social Explanation and the Vision of Social Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy)

Simon, Michael A.

ISBN 10: 0873954998 / ISBN 13: 9780873954990

Editore: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, USA, 1981

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Paperback in good condition. Covers are lightly marked, tanned and worn. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and creased, affecting pages. Title penned on spine. Page block is marked. Previous owner's name penned on half title page. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW.

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• Titolo: Understanding Human Action: Social Explanation and the Vision of Social Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy)
• Editore: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0873954998
• ISBN 13: 9780873954990
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Tipo di libro: Used
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Sociology

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Riassunto

Is human behavior determined in accordance with causal laws available to scientists? Is science capable of making sense of human actions and social life? This book is a penetrating inquiry into the question of what social science is all about. In it, Michael A. Simon challenges the prevailing view with his thesis that the social sciences are sciences in name only, and are based upon the freedom and uniqueness of the human subjects of scientific explanation.

Combining sound scholarship with clear, readable prose, Simon explains why freedom must be a primitive conception and indicates the conditions for human uniqueness. He offers a proposal for what the social sciences might become if researchers recognize that they are not scientists in the ordinary sense of the word.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael A. Simon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.