Peter T. Manicas

A Realist Philosophy of Social Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the role of causality in understanding in social science? Professor Manicas brings the idea of causality and the role that it plays in the physical sciences to bear on inquiry in social sciences. The result is an entirely different conception of the task and nature of social science. In this breathtaking volume, Peter T. Manicas offers a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective. By offering a host of concrete illustrations and examples of critical ideas this book will greatly appeal to the non-specialist reader .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861403
• ISBN-10: 0521861403
• Artikelnr.: 22746540

Autorenporträt

Professor Peter T. Manicas is a Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Explanation and understanding
2. Theory, experiment and the metaphysics of Laplace
3. Explanation and understanding in the social sciences
4. Agents and generative social mechanisms
5. Social science and history
6. Markets as social mechanisms.