Explanation and Human Action - Hardcover

Louch, A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520007697 ISBN 13: 9780520007697

Publisher: University of California Press, 1966

Synopsis

From the The intelligent and well-informed rearing of children treatment of the mentally ill, and fashioning of policy is, no doubt, highly to be desired. But the observations pertinent to these areas are piecemeal, the conclusions tentative, and dependent upon a moral point of view. The machinery that behavioural scientists bring to bear on human action is, in contrast, general and theoretical, and in principle free of the context of moral discussion. Consequently, I will suggest, their efforts pass by the problems to which they are ostensibly addressed. Behavioural scientists are forced into a mistaken view of their subject-matter as a result of their preoccupation with a method they take to be necessary to any respectable inquiry.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520007697
• ISBN 13: 9780520007697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243