On the Logic of the Social Sciences

MIT Press (1990)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

James Bohman has succeeded in reinvigorating the old debate over explanation and understanding by situating it within contemporary discussions about sociological indeterminacy and complexity. I argue that Bohman's preference for a paradigm based on Habermas's theory of communicative action is justifiable given the explanatory deficiencies of ethnomethodological, rational choice, rule-based, and functionalist methodologies. Yet I do not share his belief that the paradigm is preferable to less formalized models of interpretation

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

ISBN(s)

9780262581042   0745608620   0262081776   0262581043   0745605419
View all bargains

Buy this book

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,202

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Concepts and society.Ian Charles Jarvie - 1972 - London,: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Book Reviews : Jurgen Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen and Jerry A. Stark. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1988. Pp. xiv + 220. $12.50 (paper). Originally appeared in Philosophische Rundschau in February 1967. Published in book form in the volume Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften, 1970, Suhrkamp. [REVIEW]Sandra Gudmundsen - 1997 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (1):139-146.
The philosophical foundation of the social sciences in the theory of Jürgen Habermas.M. Korthals - 1988 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (1):69-72.
Book Review:On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Jurgen Habermas, Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Jerry A. Stark. [REVIEW]Michael Kelly - 1991 - Ethics 101 (2):413-.
Poppers methodologischer individualismus und die sozialwissenschaften.Marco Buzzoni - 2004 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 35 (1):157-173.
II. Understanding in the social sciences revisited.James W. van Evra - 1969 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 12 (1-4):347-349.
Review symposium on Habermas : IV—jürgen Habermas: A social science of the mind.Melvyn Alan Hill - 1972 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2 (1):247-259.
Philosophy & methodology of the social sciences.Mark J. Smith (ed.) - 2005 - Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
The scientific merit of the social sciences: implications for research and application.Zuyi Du - 2000 - Sterling, VA, USA: Trentham Books.
Objectivity in social science: Toward a hermeneutical evolutionary theory.Ricardo Waizbort - 2004 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (1):151-162.
Social science as civic discourse: essays on the invention, legitimation, and uses of social theory.Richard Harvey Brown - 1989 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fads and fallacies in the social sciences.Steven Goldberg - 2003 - Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.
Una Faceta Desconocida del Pensamiento de Popper: Su aporte al programa austriaco de metodología de la economía.Gustavo Marqués - 2004 - Cinta de Moebio 21.
Defending laws in the social sciences.Harold Kincaid - 1990 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20 (1):56?83.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-02-06

Downloads
12 (#1,025,624)

6 months
7 (#350,235)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Jürgen Habermas
Heidelberg University

Citations of this work

Two main problems in the sociology of morality.Gabriel Abend - 2008 - Theory and Society 37 (2):87-125.
Scientific Pluralism.Ludwig David & Ruphy Stéphanie - 2021 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Nothing is concealed: De-centring tacit knowledge and rules from social theory.Nigel Pleasants - 1996 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 26 (3):233–255.
Realism and nursing.Trevor Hussey - 2000 - Nursing Philosophy 1 (2):98–108.

View all 46 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references