ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1975.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Logic of Society: A Philosophical Study / Laird Addis


Mineapolis, SAD 1975. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, engleski jezik, X + 226 strana.
Knjiga je veoma dobro / odlično očuvana.
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In recent years challenges have arisen from various quarters, even within analytic philosophy itself, to the positivist conception of science, especially in its application to history and other social sciences. From a neo-positivist viewpoint Professor Addis attempts to meet some of these challenges. Underlying his work are the beliefs that every event that occurs, including human choices and actions, is capable of being given an explanation of the hypothetico-deductive sort, that the task of all the sciences therefore is the search for knowledge of a lawful kind, and that this knowledge is to be had only by methods which are similar throughout the sciences.
The author`s neo-positivism is qualified in various ways: among others by an insistence
on the necessity of a metaphysical basis for the philosophy of history and other social sciences and the contention that none of the social sciences, at least as their limits of investigation are usually conceived, can expect ever to have theories of the scope and reliability of the most highly developed sciences.
The chapters deal with several traditional and contemporary issues in the philosophy of history and social sciences. Among them are the nature of social reality, the possibility of reducing sociological explanations to psychological explanations, the limits and possibilities of social theory, historical explanation, and historicism and laws of historical development. Thinkers whose ideas are given substantial treatment are Durkheim, Marx, Ortega y Gasset, Popper, Plamenatz, and MacIntyre. Other theorists who are discussed critically include Sartre, Lenin, Hook, Brodbeck, and Donagan.
Laird Addis is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa.





Sadržaj:
I Introduction
General Frame of Reference
Themes of the Essay
Some Matters of Ontology
II Philosophy of Science
Lawfulness and Causation
Process, Determinism, and Interaction
Laws of Coexistence
III Minds, Beliefs, and Actions
Mind and Body
Behavior and Action
Belief and Action
IV Reduction—The Nature of Social Objects
Reduction of Objects and
Reduction of Explanations
Descriptive Individualism
Descriptive Emergentism
Durkheim and Ortega y Gasset on Social Objects
V Reduction—The Nature of Social Explanations
Reduction and Composition Rules
The Reduction of Sociology to Psychology
Four Issues; Twelve Possibilities
VI History and Social Laws
Historical Explanation

`Free Will` and Historical Explanation
The Imperfection of Society
Vll Laws of Historical Development
General Characterization of
Laws of Historical Development
Three Major Possibilities
Historicism
Popper on Historicism
Vlll Monistic Theories of Society
Introductory Comments
Monistic Theories Abstractly Considered
Monistic Social Theories
Hook`s Objections to Monistic Theories
Plamenatz on Monistic Theories
Summary and Conclusion
IX Ideas and Society
Ideas as Reflections
Ideas and Idealism
Intentions and Society
Summary and Conclusion
X The Individual, Freedom, and Purpose in Histor
The Role of the Individual in History
Freedom of the Individual
Purpose in History
XI Abstract Marxism
General Comments on Marxism
Historical Materialism
Monism and Economic Determinism
Holism
Process Theory and Pluralism
Historicism
Determinism and Fatalism
Materialism and Naturalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index