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Semantics and Social Science
Author(s): Graham MacDonald (Author), Philip Pettit (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24 Mar. 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 202 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415608988
- ISBN-13: 9780415608985
Book Description
Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a cross-cultural conception of human beings, the authors defend humanism and individualism, and reject the notion that social inquiry is necessarily vitiated by an adherence to values.
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