Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social-scientific ThoughtWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 31 de maig 1996 - 504 pàgines 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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... logical analysis — provided the foundation for Islamic philosophy and science in the seventh to tenth centuries AD . Given the logical power of Aristotelian thought , and the dominance of Platonic metaphysics during the lifetime of ...
... logic that ig- nored empirical causes and relationships in favour of a priori premises and " essential " attributes . A movement called " nominalism , " expounded by an English Franciscan , William of Occam , became popular in the ...
... logical issue could ever be . In one of his works he has Peace complain : Surely men are mad to reject me since I am the fount of every blessing and war the greatest bane .... Man depends for his very existence upon coopera- tion . He ...
... logical , Hobbes nowhere repeating the pop- ular refrain that history supports religion by showing the hand of God in the events of man " ( Reik : 50 ) . Another influence on Hobbes must surely have been The Prince by Niccolo ...
... logical base . In order to keep God in the picture of a ma- terial world then emerging from the findings of " natural philosophy , " Des- cartes had offered the concept of a formal separation of mind and matter . This left scientists ...
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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 |
Modern Evolutionary Theory Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould | 420 |
Thomas Kuhn and the Crisis in Social Science | 445 |
Toward a Unified Social Science | 466 |
Evolutionary Spiral | 493 |
Index | 497 |
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