Measuring the Intentional World: Realism, Naturalism, and Quantitative Methods in the Behavioral Sciences - Couverture rigide

Trout, J. D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195107667 ISBN 13 : 9780195107661

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Trout J D

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

There is much of value in Trout's book. The careful sorting out of often confused realist claims is welcome. His recognition that the social sciences sometimes have measurement and testing procedures akin to those of the natural sciences is also a welcome antidote to the long tradition of arguing about their scientific status without looking at what they actually do. Trout's claim that assessments of realism issues require carefully looking at specific theories seems to me particularly valuable. (Philosophical Review)

This is an interesting, complex, and important book. Indeed, it may well be the most important book in the philosophy of the social sciences since Rosenberg's Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science (1980). In addition to developing an original and intriguing naturalistic account of psychology and the social sciences, Trout offers the reader a most nuanced analysis of various forms of scientific realism, as well as a well-developed version of naturalistic epistemology. (Teaching Philosophy)

A radical book, and essential reading for courses in philosophy of science, statistics, and research methods. (Choice)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Scientific realism has been advanced as an interpretation of the natural sciences but never the behavioural sciences. This exciting book introduces a novel version of scientific realism--Measured Realism--that characterizes the kind of theoretical progress in the social and psychological sciences that is uneven but indisputable. Trout proposes a theory of measurement--Population-Guided Estimation--that connects natural, psychological, and social scientific inquiry. Presenting quantitative methods in the behavioural sciences as at once successful and regulated by the world, Measuring the Intentional World will engage philosophers of science, historians of science, sociologists of science, and scientists interested in the foundations of their own disciplines.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195107667
• ISBN 13: 9780195107661
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 302