Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences

by Roy Bhaskar

Book Overview

A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent, not just of positivistically-minded naturalists but of all the great anti-naturalists who champion a very different view of human action as a domain of freedom 'that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138212512
• ISBN13: 9781138212510
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"