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Author Phillips, D. C. (Denis Charles), 1938-

Title The social scientist's bestiary : a guide to fabled threats to, and defenses of, naturalistic social science / D. C. Phillips
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Pergamon Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xiii, 166 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Preface: On Good and Bad Beasts -- 1. Hermeneutics and Naturalistic Social Inquiry -- 2. Holistic Tendencies in Social Science -- 3. Naturalistic Ideals for Social Science -- 4. New Philosophy of Science -- 5. Objectivity and Subjectivity -- 6. Popper, Dewey and the Nature of Inquiry -- 7. Positivism -- 8. Qualitative Research and Its Warrant -- 9. Theories and Laws -- 10. Values and Social Inquiry
Analysis Social sciences Philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social sciences -- Philosophy.
LC no. 92021654
ISBN 0080402542