Epistemology of the Human Sciences Restoring an Evolutionary Approach to Biology, Economics, Psychology and Philosophy
Presenting a comprehensive overview of philosophical topics in the social sciences, the book emphasizes how all human cognition and behavior is characterized by functionality and complexity, and thus cannot be explained by the point predictions and exact laws found in the physical sciences. Realms o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Understanding, Explaining and Knowing
- Part 1: Knowledge as classification, judgment, mensuration
- 2. Problems of Mensuration and Experimentation
- 3. Problems of Measurement and Meaning in Biology
- 4. Psychology Cannot Quantify Its Research, do Experiments, or be Based Upon Behaviorism
- 5. Taking the Measure of Functional Things
- 6. Statistics Without Measurement
- 7. Economic Calculation of Value Is Not Measurement, not Apriori, and Its Study Is Not Experimental
- Part 2: What can be known, and what is real
- 8. Structural Realism and Theoretical Reference
- 9. The Mental and the Physical Still Pose Insuperable Problems
- Part 3: There are inescapable dualisms
- 10. Complementarity in Science, Life and Knowledge
- 11. Complementarities of physicality and functionality yield unavoidable dualisms
- Part 4: Complementarity and ambiguity
- 12. Understanding Complex Phenomena
- 13. The Resolution of Surface and Deep Structure Ambiguity
- Part 5: The corruption of knowledge: Politics and the deflection of science
- 14. Political Prescription of Behavior Ignores Epistemic Constraints
- Part 6: Appendix: The Abject Failure of Traditional Philosophy to Understand Epistemology
- 15. Induction is an insuperable problem for traditional philosophy
- 16. Rheroric and Logic in Inference and Expectation
- 17. Rationality in an evolutionary epistemology