TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potter,Garry
TI  - The philosophy of social science: new perspectives, 
SN  - 9781138998391 (hardback)
AV  - H61.15 .P68 2000
U1  - 300.1 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Sociology
N1  - Revised edition of the author's The philosophy of social science; 1st edition preface -- 2nd edition preface -- The importance of science and the importance of understanding what science is rationalism and empiricism : science's weak foundations -- Positivism and its problems : seeing is not all there is to believing -- Explanations of social scientific understanding and social scientific understandings of natural scientific explanations -- Hermeneutics and science : "the linguistic turn" -- Feminism and science : a woman's place is the more objective space -- Postmodernism : if you say there are no right or wrong answers and i say you're wrong, am i right : or wrong? -- Islam and science : the stars on a common celestial globe -- Pragmatism and neo-pragmatism : foundations of anti-foundationalism -- Hyperreality and critical realism, simulacra and social science -- Terminology glossary
ER  -