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L'interrogation du philosophe sur le droit est séculaire. En outre, le dialogue entre philosophes et juristes est loin, comme on le dit souvent, d'être stérile. C'est pourquoi il importe en premier lieu de ne pas abuser de la distinction, fort à la mode mais perfide, entre « droit des philosophes » et « droit des juristes ». Il est également nécessaire de comprendre que la reconnaissance des « droits de l'homme » ne s'effectue pas seulement au nom d'une éthique universaliste mais implique leur consécration par les règles du droit positif. The philosopher's interrogation on the law is secular. Moreover the dialogue between philosophers and lawyers is not unproductive as it is often said to-day. So, at first, it is necessary to use prudently and without abuse of the fashionable but perfidious distinction between « law of philosophers » and « law of lawyers ». In a second moment, it is also necessary to understand that the acknowledgment of « human rights » is not only realized by reference to the universalist ethics but implies their consecration by the rules of positive law.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION To date, the social sciences have had only limited success in the definition and solution of pressing social problems which without ...

We survey the contents of Finocchiaro's papers collected in Arguments about Arguments , pointing out, where appropriate, their expected interest for readers of Philosophy of the Social Sciences. The papers include essays about argument theory and reasoning, the nature of fallacies and fallaciousness, critiques of noteworthy contributions to argumentation theory, and historical essays on scientific thinking. Key Words: arguments • dialectic • dialectical approach • empirical logic • evaluation • fallacies • informal logic • interpretation • reasoning.

This is a comprehensive and authoritative reference collection in the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences. The source materials selected are drawn from debates within the natural sciences as well as social scientific practice. This four volume set covers the traditional literature on the philosophy of the social sciences, and the contemporary philosophical and methodological debates developing at the heart of the disciplinary and interdisciplinary groups in the social sciences. It addresses the needs of researchers and academics who are grappling with the relationship between questions of knowledge construction and the problems of social scientific method.

In 1981, A. C. Crombie identified six styles of scientific thinking in the European tradition that constitute our ways of reasoning in the natural sciences. In this paper, I try to show that these styles constitute reasoning in the social sciences as well, and that, as a result, the differences between reasoning about the physical world and about human beings are not so different as some interpretevists have supposed.