A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and understanding in the social sciences
A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and understanding in the social sciences
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社会科学的现实主义哲学：社会科学的解释和理解
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2006
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P. Manicas
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P. Manicas
对社会科学哲学的介绍提供了关于社会探究的任务和性质的原创概念。彼得·马尼卡斯讨论了物理科学中因果关系的作用，并从现实主义的角度重新评估了解释问题。他认为，自然科学和社会科学理论的基本目标并不是与普遍观点相反，预测和控制，或对事件（包括行为）的解释。相反，理论旨在提供对共同产生经验的偶然结果的过程的理解。这本通俗易懂的书提供了大量关于批判性思想和问题的具体插图和例子，将会引起社会科学哲学学生和来自各个学科的社会科学家的兴趣。
This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical sciences and offers a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective. He argues that the fundamental goal of theory in both the natural and social sciences is not, contrary to widespread opinion, prediction and control, or the explanation of events (including behaviour). Instead, theory aims to provide an understanding of the processes which, together, produce the contingent outcomes of experience. Offering a host of concrete illustrations and examples of critical ideas and issues, this accessible book will be of interest to students of the philosophy of social science, and social scientists from a range of disciplines.
基因、环境和种族：定量遗传方法。
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10.1037/0003-066x.60.1.104
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2005
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The American psychologist
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Whitfield,KeithE;McClearn,Gerald
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McClearn,Gerald