The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences Some Critical and Historical Perspectives
Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social sciences have interacted with the natural sciences. Usually, such interactions are considered to go only `one way': from the natural to the social sciences. But there are several...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Introduction
- 1. An Analysis of Interactions between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
- II: Perspectives on the Relations Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
- 2. How Numerical Sociology began by Counting Suicides: from Medical Pathology to Social Pathology
- 3. Probabilistic Thinking, the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: Changing Configurations (1800–1850)
- III: Some Influences of the Natural Sciences on the Social Sciences
- 4. The Scientific Revolution and the Social Sciences
- 5. Blackstone’s “Newtonian” Dissent
- 6. From Political Economy to Market Mechanics: The Jevonian Moment in the History of Economics
- 7. The Technology of Nature: Marx’s Thoughts on Darwin
- 8. Towards the Social Organism: Herbert Spencer and William B. Carpenter on the Analogical Method
- IV: Some Influences of the Social Sciences on the Natural Sciences
- 9. Darwin and the Agronomists: An Influence of Political Economy on Scientific Thought
- 10. Milne-Edwards, Darwin, Durkheim and the Division of Labour: A Case Study in Reciprocal Conceptual Exchanges between the Social and the Natural Sciences
- 11. From Quetelet to Maxwell: Social Statistics and the Origins of Statistical Physics
- V: Conclusion
- 12. A Conversation with HARVEY BROOKS on the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and Public Policy — Conducted by I. BERNARD COHEN
- Index of Names