208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, this book upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant. By pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, Mclntyre shows that the barriers to nomological inquiry within the social sciences are... Read more
Preface -- The Nomological Ideal -- Fundamental Objections to Social Scientific Laws -- Practical Objections to Social Scientific Laws -- The Role of Laws in Scientific Understanding: The Case of Evolutionary Biology -- A Question of Relevance -- Metaphysical Interlude -- Prospects and Limitations of a Nomological Social Science
Biography
Mcintyre, Lee C
