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
Philosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world in which we live. But in what
Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-centur
A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual