Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social-scientific ThoughtWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 31 mag 1996 - 504 pagine How can one explain the general failure of the social sciences to accumulate reliable knowledge? According to Pat Duffy Hutcheon the social sciences have failed us in the twentieth century. Practitioners in the social realm (such as politicians, therapists, educators and economists) are unable to provide the answers we seek to meet the challenges of our everyday lives and the next millennium. In Leaving the Cave Hutcheon explores the reasons for this failure. In this pioneering study of the development of social and biological evolutionary theory she contends that, for the first time in history, there exists a paradigm capable of integrating the life sciences and the social/behavioural sciences, a model to make effective social science a reality. To illustrate her arguments Hutcheon traces the development of a current of thought she identifies as evolutionary naturalism. She focusses on the lives and writings of those thinkers who have most illuminated this philosophy, from the Hellenic Greeks, through the works of the early pioneers of modern social scientific thought, to the social theorists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries whose ideas have been firmly rooted in the Darwinian and Pavlovian revolutions in biology and neuroscience. Leaving the Cave is an innovative, multidisciplinary study of the development of social science, the philosophy of evolutionary naturalism and the effect of each on the other. Certain to arouse controversy, this is a book which everyone concerned for the future of the social sciences will want to read. |
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The Political and Educational Theories of JeanJacques Rousseau | 57 |
Harriet Martineau and the Quiet Revolution | 70 |
The Dialectical Materialism of Karl Marx | 97 |
Charles Darwin The Reluctant Revolutionary | 114 |
Herbert Spencer Setting the Stage for a Unified Study of Humanity | 128 |
George Santayana on a Unified Social Theory | 276 |
Bertrand Russell and the Quest for Philosophical Certainty | 293 |
The Evolutionary Social Theory of Julian Huxley | 310 |
The Existential Political Theory of Hannah Arendt | 324 |
Eric Fromm and Humanistic Psychology | 346 |
The Genetic Developmentalism of Jean Piaget | 361 |
Karl Popper and the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge | 380 |
The Radical Behaviourism of BF Skinner | 399 |
What Price Immortality? The Faustian Tragedy of Sigmund Freud | 149 |
Ivan Pavlov and the Third Copernican Revolution | 172 |
John Dewey and the Universality of Scientific Inquiry | 186 |
From Naturalism to Mysticism Henri Bergson | 205 |
The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl | 217 |
Emile Durkheim and Max Weber A Matter of Boundaries | 228 |
The Process of Cultural Evolution George Herbert Mead | 258 |
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