Mapping Reality

Evolutionary Realist Methodology for the Natural and Social Science

Szerző: Jane Azevedo

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: State University of New York Press

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Using the insights of evolutionary epistemology, the author develops a new naturalist realist method...

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Szerző

Jane Azevedo

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1997

oldal

320

EAN

9780791432082

Enbook ID

04699752

Kiadó

State University of New York Press

Súly

500

Méretek

150 x 230 x 19

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Using the insights of evolutionary epistemology, the author develops a new naturalist realist methodology of science, and applies it to the conceptual, practical, and ethical problems of the social sciences. With postmodernism and postructuralism sweeping the social sciences and humanities, a whole generation of students from disciplines as diverse as history, English literature, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology are learning that "truth" is bogus -- a tired old liberal humanist fiction. Language is incapable of telling the truth, and science, nothing but a socially constructed discourse, functions to maintain the status quo. There is much to be said for this point of view, but ironically, relativists face precisely the same quandary, for if all claims to knowledge are equally valid, then de facto the knowledge claims of the most powerful are the ones disseminated and acted upon. This timely book offers a way out of the current realist/ relativist impasse. Azevedo uses the insights of evolutionary epistemology to develop a naturalist realist methodology of science, the "mapping model of knowledge", and applies it to solving the conceptual, practical, and ethical problems faced by sociology as a discipline. The model is developed from the practice of the natural sciences, and comes with an easily applied and powerful heuristic based on mapping, filling the gap left by the downfall of positivist and empiricist methodologies.

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