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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciencesdi Ian Shapiro
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book should have been subtitled "selected papers" to emphasize that it's not a unified work. I liked the three general papers on the methodology of political science, which were about 100 pages in total. I didn't like the 50 pages the author spent on rebutting Richard Posner, whom I've never heard of, or the 50 pages where he responded to comments on his earlier book, which I had not read. The scattered arguments in this book are typical for a book with selected papers. Professionals may like it but I certainly don't recommend this book to general readers. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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