Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences

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2008
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Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of scientific methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not by reference to these arbitrary norms delineated by those outside the field but in terms of norms implicit in what social scientists actually do in their everyday work.

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Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of scientific methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not by reference to these arbitrary norms delineated by those outside the field but in terms of norms implicit in what social scientists actually do in their everyday work.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: AldineTransaction
Published: 15 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 0202361845
ISBN 13: 9780202361840

Author Bio

Paul Diesing is professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He did his graduate studies in philosophy from the University of Chicago and has taught at that university, the University of Illinois, and the University of Colorado. Diesing has also been a faculty associate at the Buffalo Center for International Conflict Studies, where he participated in the Center's program of researching in bargaining theory and international crises. He is the author of Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions and Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences.