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A realist philosophy of social science : explanation and understanding
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ISBN: 0521678587 0521861403 9780521861403 9780521678582 9780511607035 0511220103 9780511220104 9780511648472 0511648472 9780511219429 0511219423 0511219423 9780521378582 1107168155 9781107168152 0511569033 9780511569036 0511607032 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical sciences and offers a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective. He argues that the fundamental goal of theory in both the natural and social sciences is not, contrary to widespread opinion, prediction and control, or the explanation of events (including behaviour). Instead, theory aims to provide an understanding of the processes which, together, produce the contingent outcomes of experience. Offering a host of concrete illustrations and examples of critical ideas and issues, this accessible book will be of interest to students of the philosophy of social science, and social scientists from a range of disciplines.

Les formes de l’action : Sémantique et sociologie
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ISSN: 11501367 ISBN: 2713209552 2713230799 9782713209550 Year: 2020 Volume: 1 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales,

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L’analyse de l’action est remise au premier plan par certains courants actuels de la philosophie et des sciences sociales. L’étude de la sémantique de l’action (intention, volonté, motif, désir, etc.) a fait apparaître le rôle important du langage dans la constitution du champ pratique. Elle a permis d’éclairer sous un jour nouveau les rapports entre langage ordinaire et analyse sociale. Cet ouvrage restitue l’état du débat suscité, en sciences sociales, par la prise en compte de la spécificité du langage de l’action, et présente quelques-unes des recherches qui en sont issues. Les formes de l’action inaugure une série de volumes collectifs qui interviendront sur des questions vives d’épistémologie, d’analyse sociologique et de théorie sociale, dans un souci de confrontation avec les principaux courants de réflexion qui, depuis plusieurs décennies, modifient nos façons de concevoir l’homme, la culture et la vie sociale.


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Posthuman ecologies
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ISBN: 1786608243 9781786608246 9781786608222 1786608235 9781786608239 1786608227 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Lanham, Maryland

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The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of 'inhumanism' as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary capitalist geopolitics and biotechnologies of control. Understanding the potential for such resistance in the posthuman condition requires urgent new thinking about the nature of human influence in complex interactional systems, and about the nature of such systems when conceived in non-anthropocentric way. Through specific readings and uses of Deleuze's conceptual apparatus, this volume examines the operation of human-actioned systems as complex and heterogeneous arenas of affection and accountability. This exciting collection extends non-humanist concepts for understanding reality, agency and interaction in dynamic ecologies of reciprocal determination and influence. The outcome is a vital new theorisation of human scope, responsibility and potential in the posthuman condition.


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Meer : hoe overvloed de wereld juist duurzamer en welvarender maakt
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ISBN: 9789046826959 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam Nieuw Amsterdam

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Hoe lossen we de grote problemen van deze tijd op: de klimaatverandering, de groeiende ongelijkheid en de biodiversiteitscrisis? Moeten we soberder leven, met minder groei, consumptie en reizen, zoals de groene beweging wil? Of ligt de oplossing in minder overheid, minder ontwikkelingsgeld en minder wetenschap, zoals het rechts-populisme voorstaat? Niet mínder, maar méér is de enige weg, volgens de auteurs van dit uitdagende boek. Zo pleiten ze voor meer economische groei en welvaart om armoede te bestrijden en duurzame technologie mogelijk te maken, en voor meer overheidsingrijpen om individuele vrijheid te creëren. Een overvloedige, moderne wereld leidt tot meer geluk en autonomie. Als we dan ook nog in onszelf en ons vernuft durven geloven, ligt er een stralende toekomst in het verschiet.https://nieuwamsterdam.nl/product/7058/

A treatise on social theory: applied social theory. vol. 3
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ISBN: 0511004788 9780511004780 0521249600 0521249066 9780521249065 0521272513 9780521272513 0521249597 9780521249591 0521369835 9780521369831 9780511583469 0521588014 Year: 1997 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Cambridge University Press

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