The Human Project and the Temptations of Science.
On account of the impressive yield of empirical science since the dawn of modern era, theorists of human behavior have sought eagerly to adopt its methodology to explain and predict behavior in the same way that natural science does with respect to natural phenomena. Thus, the positivist principle e...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1998. ©1998. |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value Inquiry Book
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (164 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial Foreword
- ONE Introduction
- TWO Epistemology and Its Basic Questions
- THREE On Scientific Knowledge
- FOUR Epistemology, Ideology, and the Sociology of Knowledge
- FIVE Neoclassical Economics on Liberty, Individualism, and Rationality
- SIX Property, Rights, and the Sociology of the Neoclassical Economy
- SEVEN Socialist Economic Theory and Ideology
- EIGHT Biology and Human Behavior
- NINE The Foundations of Social and Economic Justice
- TEN Critical Theory and Human Emancipation
- ELEVEN Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index.