The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / / Ian Shapiro.
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, schol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fear of Not Flying
- Chapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent
- Chapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice
- Chapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis
- Chapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument
- Chapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It
- Chapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin
- Index