Thinking about Social Science

Goldstein, Leon J.

ISBN 10: 1883058597 / ISBN 13: 9781883058593

Published by Global Publications, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking about Social Science
• Publisher: Global Publications
• Publication Date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1883058597
• ISBN 13: 9781883058593
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Almost all of the papers which make up this volume go back to the earliest years of my career, the 1950s and 1960s. To me, there are two unambiguous indications of that: a certain inclination toward the logical empiricist philosophy of science and my preoccupation with anthropology among the social sciences...The papers that follow are, for the most part, sufficiently unlike and independent of each other as to make an overall introductory essay not really feasible. One of the things that I find striking gis that while, as I said above, in my early years I was clearly affected by the philosophy of science of logical empiricism, there is already evidence early on that I had my doubts about realism in epistemology. I became explicitly dubious about realism during the years that I devoted to philosophy of history. In my view, the most interesting question that we confront in philosophy of history concerns how historians, who are forever caught in the present, can make epistemically responsible statements about a past they can never experience, and the answer points us toward the discipline with respect to which such knowledge is to be had.

About the Author

Leon J. Goldstein earned his Ph.D. degree at Yale (1954), and served on the faculties of Brandeis University (1955-1957), the University of Maryland overseas program (1948), and the evening session of City College of New York (1959-1963). During 1958-1963, he was on the research staff of the American Jewish Committee. He has been on the faculty of the State University of New York at Binghamton since 1963. He is editor of International Studies in Philosophy, and has published (with Lucy S. Dawidowicz) Politics in a Pluralist Democracy (1963), Historical Knowing (1976), and The What and the Why of History (1996). He is currently working on a book dealing with open concepts and conceptual tension.