Author: Ludwig von Mises
Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Inst
Keywords: economics, problems, epistemological
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 2003-04-10
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0945466366
ISBN-13: 9780945466369

"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise, he argues that the core intellectual errors of statism, socialism, protectionism, racism, irrationalism can be found in a revolt against economic logic and its special character. Epistemological Problems of Economics was original published in 1933, a period when the social sciences and economic policy were undergoing upheaval. The classical view of economics

Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Keywords: preliminaries, epistemological, sociology, craft
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1991-05-01
List price: $38.20
ISBN-10: 3110119404
ISBN-13: 9783110119404

The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradi

Author: James A. Anderson
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: foundations, epistemological, theory, communication
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 1996-05-17
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1572300833
ISBN-13: 9781572300835

This book provides a thorough analysis of the scientific, critical, and cultural questions at the foundation of theory-building in communication andother social sciences. Any claim to knowledge, the author explains, can be analyzed in terms of a series of characteristics: the object of its explanation, the explanatory form and evidentiary method employed, its characteristic explanations, the scope of its performance, and its consequences of value. From identifying basic epistemological questions to exploring the impact of the "knowledge industry" on society, the volume offers readers the analy

Author: Martijn Blaauw
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: studien, philosophische, grazer, contextualism, epistemological
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2005-07
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 9042016272
ISBN-13: 9789042016279

Table of Contents Martijn BLAAUW: Introduction Duncan PRITCHARD: Neo-Mooreanism versus Contextualism Krista LAWLOR: Living without Closure Patrick RYSIEW: Contesting Contextualism Jessica BROWN: Comparing Contextualism and Invariantism on the Correctness of Contextualist Intuitions Adam LEITE: Some Worries for Would-be WAMmers Martijn BLAAUW: Challenging Contextualism René VAN WOUDENBERG: Contextualism and the Many Senses of Knowledge Tim BLACK & Peter MURPHY: Avoiding the Dogmatic Commitments of Contextualism Ram NETA: A Contextualist Solution to the Problem

Author: Ilana Mushi
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: pragmatics, new, series, retelling, narrative, epistemological, stance, evidentiality
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1588110338
ISBN-13: 9781588110336

Author: Myint Swe Khine
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: across, diverse, cultures, studies, epistemological, knowledge, beliefs, knowing
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2008-01-24
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 1402065957
ISBN-13: 9781402065958

Beliefs about nature of knowledge and learning, or epistemological beliefs have been an interest of educational researchers and psychologists for the past several years. New perspectives on theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches and empirical studies on epistemological beliefs are emerging in the literature as a well-defined field of study. Studies show that personal epistemology has influence on comprehension, study strategies, learning process and academic performance. Research in this area has undergone considerable growth in the past decades and has now reached a stage of no

Author: James Fieser
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Keywords: volumes, vol, amp, writings, epistemological, hume, metaphysical, responses
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 1843711168
ISBN-13: 9781843711162

This major new work is the second part of an important new series, Early Responses to Hume’s Writings, a collection of 18th and 19th-century critical publications on Hume’s philosophical, political, economic and historical writings. The themes of the two volumes printed here are the replies to Hume’s metaphysical philosophy and epistemology. They contain responses to the Treatise Books 1 and 2, and the metaphysical and epistemological portions of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and A Dissertation on the Passions. Topics covered include causality, personal identity,