244 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to positivist and empiricist accounts of the physical sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism in the social sciences in new terms. Recent materialist and realist philosophies of... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Auguste Comte and Positivist Sociology 3. The Natural Sciences: Contemporary Positivism and the Concept of Explanation 4. The Natural Sciences: The Positivist Conception of Scientific Theory and its Competitors 5. Positivism and Ideology in the Work of Emile Durkheim 6. Kant and the Neo-Kantians 7. The Methodology of Max Weber, and Peter Winch’s ‘Corrections’ 8. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Philosophy of History and Theory of Knowledge 9. Towards a Materialist Theory of Knowledge
Biography
Ted Benton
