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1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Destructive Conceptions of Rationality; 1. Under-estimating the Rational Subject; 2. Means-end Rationality; 2. Knowledge and the Knowing Subject; 1 .'Knowing' as a Form of Interaction; 2. The Individual and Claims to Knowledge; 3. Self-chosen Values, Imposed Values and Alienation; 3. Common-sense Realism and Rational Action; 1. Popper: his Commitments to Realism and Fallibilism; 2. Facts, Values and Relations; 4. Alienation and the Social Scientist; 1. The Authoritarian Assumption; 2. The Denial of Objective Value in Social Science |
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5. Repercussions of a Science-Dominated Conception of Reason1. The Overthrow of Restrictive frameworks; 2. The Science and Art of Reasoning; 3. Restrictive Rationality and the Fake Morality of Modern Liberalism; 6. A Closer Look at Scientific Method; 1. From Means/Ends to Programme/Prognosis: Myardal's Solution to the Problem of Bias; 2. Background Knowledge and the Rational Selection of Theories; 7. Ideology and Bias; 1. Defining the Terms; 2. Value-neutrality as an Obstacle to Progress; 3. Science and Ideology; 8. Today's Ideology; 1. Science, Modem Liberalism and the Market Mechanism |
| Summary |
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 science and its implications on how we think about morals and politics |
| Notes |
"First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing." |
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Reason.
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Alienation (Philosophy)
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reason.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Alienation (Philosophy)
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Reason
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429459481 |
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0429459483 |
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