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22 Feb 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorisation has distorted Realism, forcing the theory of power politics in International Relations into a paradigmatic strait-jacket that is simply inadequate and inappropriate to the task of encompassing its diversity.
Abstract: Challenging the received notions of international relations theory about perhaps its most central tradition - Realism, Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorisation has distorted Realism, forcing the theory of power politics in International Relations into a paradigmatic strait-jacket that is simply inadequate and inappropriate to the task of encompassing its diversity. This invigorated new angle offers a counter-memory of Realism that re-asserts the originality and power of Realist insights into the nature of power and international society.
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05 May 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of thin realism is addressed using proper method and arealism, and the problem is solved by thin realism and thin realism with proper method, respectively.
Abstract: Introduction 1. The Problem 2. Proper Method 3. Thin Realism 4. Arealism 5. Morals Bibliography
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TL;DR: The authors argued that Newton's Second Law (f = ma) is not a testable, provable proposition with a truth value, but a way of looking and a method of analysis and that the necessity of its adoption by any individual lies in its being a necessary condition of entry into the scientific community.
Abstract: The paper examines the differences between Kuhn's account, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, of the sciences as necessarily communal activities with internally set standards of procedure and achievement, and that view of the sciences which calls itself ‘Scientific Realism’ and regards them as striving toward, and perhaps asymptotically approaching, some external and objective reality that bestows truth or falsity on scientific theories. The main argument turns on Poincare's demonstration that Newton's Second Law (f = ma) is not a testable, provable proposition with a truth value, but something that is simply adopted. It is adopted in the light of experience, certainly, but there is no logical necessity in the adoption. My suggestion is that it is a ‘way of looking’ and ‘a method of analysis’ and that the necessity of its adoption by any individual lies in its being a necessary condition of entry into the scientific community. That community itself adopts ways of looking or methods of an...
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TL;DR: The treatment of demand and utility by J. R. Hicks, pioneered by E. Slutzky, has been criticised by as mentioned in this paper, who argued that it constitutes a movement in a backward direction.
Abstract: T HE treatment of demand is the branch of economic theory in which methodological problems are most important and most difficult. This is because it is here that behavior facts are most inseparably bound up with motivation and that objective data call most imperatively for interpretation by subjective facts and meanings.' The objective in this paper is largely negative -to criticize certain recent innovations in the treatment of demand which have been generally hailed as representing an advance but which, in the writer's opinion, constitute a movement in a backward direction. The particular reference is to the treatment of demand and utility by J. R. Hicks, pioneered by E. Slutzky,
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