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Pre-Owned Theoretical Criminology from Modernity to Post-Modernism 9781859412206

Designed to place criminological theory at the cutting edge of contemporary debates this book incorporates many exciting discussions in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. CONDITION –... more

Key Themes in Health and Social Care: The Body (Hardcover)

The medical and social sciences offer us many ways of understanding the human body and what it can do. From biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy a range of disciplines supply us with a rich yet challenging picture. On the one hand our... more

Key Themes in Health and Social Care: The Body (Paperback)

The medical and social sciences offer us many ways of understanding the human body and what it can do. From biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy a range of disciplines supply us with a rich yet challenging picture. On the one hand our... more

Sage Library of Political Science: Political Leadership (Other)

Leadership is one of the principal interests of the social sciences. Drawing on psychology sociology anthropology and business studies as well as philosophy and history this four-volume collection focuses in on democratic leadership in the political... more

Traditions in Social Theory: Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought (Hardcover)

Philosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world in which we live. But in what ways do these two distinct disciplines inform each other and arrive at these truths? This... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences advances the philosophy of perspectivism showing how its capacity to assess competing views of a particular concept by approaching them as different sides of a multi-dimensional... more

Pre-owned Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science : A Multicultural Approach Paperback by Fay Brian ISBN 1557865388 ISBN-13 9781557865380

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Pre-Owned Philosophy of the Social Sciences : Groundwork for Dynamics 9780566051586 /

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Pre-Owned New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy (Paperback 9780262521833) by James Bohman

9780262521833. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 280. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 280 p. philosophy of science has in recent years begun to show a healthier respect for history and actual practice more

Pre-Owned The Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9780394440170 Used

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Pre-Owned A Critique of Max Weber s Philosophy of Social Science (Hardcover 9780521084116) by W G Runciman

9780521084116. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 112. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 112 p. Contains: Unspecified. This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber s philosophy of... more

Pre-Owned Philosophy of Social Science 9780813343518

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Pre-Owned A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and Understanding Paperback

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Pre-Owned Philosophy of Social Science 9780813306162

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Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Hardcover): The Idolatry of the Actual (Hardcover)

The first close study of Jürgen Habermas s theory of socialization a central but infrequently discussed component of his defense of deliberative democracy The Idolatry of the Actual charts its increasingly uneasy relationship with the later... more

Philosophy Science and Social Inquiry : Contemporary Methodological Controversies in Social Science and Related Applied Fields of Research 9780080334110 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned Social Science: Beyond Constructivism and Realism (Paperback) 0816631271 9780816631278

An ambitious and wide-ranging text about the debates of social science. This concise and comprehensive volume provides an accessible overview of the main debates on the sociology and philosophy of the social sciences. Exploring the changing conceptions... more

Pre-Owned Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences 9780415214438 /

This practical introduction for first time researchers provides a bridge between how to conduct research and the philosophy of social science allowing students to relate what they are doing to why. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

Michael Polanyi and His Generation : Origins of the Social Construction of Science (Hardcover)

In Michael Polanyi and His Generation Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially... more

Pre-Owned Phenomenology and the Social World : The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Its Relation to the Social Sciences 9780710087126

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Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Metaphysics of Cooperation: Edward Abramowski s Social Philosophy. with a Selection of His Writings (Hardcover)

The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences Edward Abramowski. The volume is divided into five sections each of them contains an analysis of Polish philosopher... more

Philosophers in Depth: Tuomela on Sociality (Hardcover)

Raimo Tuomela late Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT) University of Helsinki is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of our time. He published extensively on various topics within social... more

Pre-Owned Science Politics and Social Practice: Essays on Marxism Philosophy of (Hardcover 9780792329893) by K Gavroglu John Stachel Marx W Wartofsky

9780792329893. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 1995 ed. Language: English. Pages: 406. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 406 p. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 164. The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the... more

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn (Paperback)

What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute except perhaps peripherally to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the... more

Exceedingly Nietzsche: Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1988 this collection brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy literature and the social sciences. The Nietzsche these contributors... more

Altruism and Altruistic Love : Science Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue 9780195143584 Used / Pre-owned

The concept of altruism or disinterested concern for another s welfare has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists. In this cutting edge book evolutionary neurological developmental psychological social cultural and... more

Routledge Focus on Philosophy Moralistics and Psychomoralistics: A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition (Hardcover)

This book brings together three distinct research programmes in moral psychology - Moral Foundations Theory Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange and the Linguistic Analogy in Moral Psychology - and shows that they can be combined to create a... more

Pre-Owned: The Truth About the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy with PowerWeb: Philosophy (Paperback 9780072980813 0072980818)

The Truth About the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy with PowerWeb: Philosophy ISBN-10 0072980818 ISBN-13 9780072980813 Rachels James 1 edition 320 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Binding: Paperback This collection... more

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies: African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought (Paperback)

Using classic texts in African philosophy Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and intersections between both fields. The idea that cognition is embodied and embedded in a social world... more

Pre-Owned Moral Philosophy 9780192892461

In this new and enlarged edition of a standard introduction to moral philosophy Professor Raphael shows in clear and simple language the connections between abstract ethics and practical problems in law government medicine and the social sciences in... more

Philosophy (Methodological Guide). Bishkek-2018 (Paperback)

Methodical manual on Philosophy discipline has been compiled in accordance with the requirements of the State Educational Standard at the Department of Philosophy Theory and History of Culture at the Faculty of Social-Humanitarian Sciences of KNU named... more

Pre-Owned Philosophical Applications Of Cognitive Science (Paperback) 0813380405 9780813380407

In this short accessible and entertaining book Alvin Goldman presents a masterly survey of recent work in cognitive science that has particular relevance to philosophy. Besides reviewing the most suggestive work in cognitive and social psychology... more

Routledge Revivals: Alienation and Value-Neutrality (Hardcover)

First published in 1998 Loughlin examines the conception of rationality through the gazes of science philosophy and political philosophy to further explain the concept of rational reasoning the effects it has on the development on natural and social... more

Critical and Effective Histories (Hardcover)

First Published in 2004. This work places Foucault s methodologies against social theory and philosophy in order to provide a guide to social sciences particularly historical sociology. Written to clarify Foucault s contribution for professional and... more

Empower the People (Hardcover)

Out of such different voices as the political philosophy of Martin Luther King black power and black nationalism the social science of William Julius Wilson and Nathan and Julia Hare the music and dance of Stevie Wonder and the blues black womanist... more

Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Social Security in the Balkans - Volume 3: An Overview of Social Policy in Serbia and Kosovo (Paperback)

The third volume in this comprehensive study of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs provides protection against social risks reduces social tensions and... more

Pre-Owned Beyond Blood Oil: Philosophy Policy and the Future (Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy) Paperback

9781538112106. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 206. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 206 p. Contains: Unspecified Halftones black & white. Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy. Leif Wenar s... more

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (Paperback)

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes and is shaped by social and political factors. Its 24 chapters were written exclusively for this volume by an international team of leading researchers and together they provide a... more