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Routledge
263 Pages
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Routledge
263 Pages
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Routledge
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Most social scientists and philosophers claim that sociology and philosophy are disjoint fields of inquiry. Some have wondered how to trace the precise boundary between them. Mario Bunge argues that the two fields are so entangled with one another that no demarcation is possible or, indeed, desirable. In fact, sociological research has demonstrably philosophical pre-suppositions. In turn, some... Read more
1: The Relevance of Philosophy to Sociology; 2: Mechanism; 3: Explanation; 4: Quality, Quantity, Pseudoquantity, and Measurement in Social Science; 5: The Lure and Disappointment of Rational Choice Theory; 6: Popper’s Social Philosophy; 7: The Enlightenment and Its Enemies; 8: Sociology of Science: From Marx to Merton and Beyond; 9: The Constructivist-Relativist Sociology of Science; 10: In Praise of Intolerance toward Academic Charlatanism
Biography
Mario Bunge
