Abstract Edifices
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Common Sense Epistemology
Correspondence Rules
Deductive Necessity
Deductive Structure
Deductive Subsumption
Devious
Duhem Quine Problems
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Epistemic Community
epistemology
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Guided Missile
Hempel's Analysis
Hempel’s Analysis
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ience
Inductive Point
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Metaphoric Redescription
Methodological Falsificationist
Narrowest Reference Class
Nomic Necessity
Partial Interpretation
philosophy of science
philosophy of science in sociology
Potential Falsifiers
Rational Reconstruction
research methodology
scientific explanation
Sentence System
sociological theory
Specific Theory Language
Synthetic Distinction
Systematic Empiricism
Systematic Reconstruction
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theory construction
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Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415475006
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of science have broken with the empiricism once fundamental to their discipline, and have sought alternative methods of science. Founded on the belief that these developments are significant for sociologists, the book explores the failings of the old "received view" and some of the more recent alternatives. It proposes a schematic outline of the structure of inquiry, paying detailed attention to questions about the nature of theory, explanation and demonstration.
