II. Understanding in the social sciences revisited

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 12 (1-4):347-349 (1969)
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Rolf Gruner's article on the role of understanding in the social sciences casts rational understanding as the aim of the social sciences. Even though he opts for a non?controversial methodology for the social sciences, his view still commits the social sciences to seeking the reproduction of reality rather than the explanation of it

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Philosophy of social science.Richard S. Rudner - 1966 - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall.
Understanding in the social sciences and history.Rolf Gruner - 1967 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4):151 – 163.
More on understanding in the social sciences.Frank Cunningham - 1967 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4):321-326.

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