Understanding Human Action - Couverture souple

Simon, Michael A.

 
9780873954990: Understanding Human Action

Synopsis

Is human behavior determined in accordance with causal laws available to scientists? Is science capable of making sense of human actions and social life? This book is a penetrating inquiry into the question of what social science is all about. In it, Michael A. Simon challenges the prevailing view with his thesis that the social sciences are sciences in name only, and are based upon the freedom and uniqueness of the human subjects of scientific explanation.

Combining sound scholarship with clear, readable prose, Simon explains why freedom must be a primitive conception and indicates the conditions for human uniqueness. He offers a proposal for what the social sciences might become if researchers recognize that they are not scientists in the ordinary sense of the word.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael A. Simon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780873954983: Understanding Human Action: Social Explanation and the Vision of Social Science

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  087395498X ISBN 13 :  9780873954983
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1981
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