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Philosophies of social sciences
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Piet Strydom,Gerard Delanty,Piet Strydom |
This is a collection of extracts from classic works on the philosophy of social science highlighting the work of many influential authors who have shaped social science. |
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Karl Popper |
When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth c… |
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Disturbing the universe
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Freeman J. Dyson |
Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell Univ… |
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Understanding social science
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Roger Trigg |
In this introductory volume on the nature of society, Roger Trigg examines the scientific basis of social science and shows that philosophical presuppositions are a necessary starting point for the s… |
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The mind of God
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P. C. W. Davies |
Complementing his metaphysical exploration of the meaning and origin of life in "God and The New Physics", physicist Paul Davies further investigates theological and scientific explanations for the c… |
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Objectivity and the silence of reason
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George E. McCarthy |
"Drawing deeply on the Kantian and neo-Kantian tradition that contributed to the development of Weber's method, Objectivity and the Silence of Reason demonstrates the crucial integration of philosoph… |
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A short history of nearly everything
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Bill Bryson |
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general… |
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