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Realism
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18 Dec 2007
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a key formulation of critical realism and substance for causality and substance in political science, and a realism about causality in social science.
Abstract: Part I - Key Formulations 1. Critical Realism and Substance 2. Causality and Substance 3. Essence and Accident 4. Conceptual and Natural Necessity 5. Powers and Dispositions Part II - Realism About Causality in Philosophy 6. Meaning, Truth and Causal Explanation: The 'Humean Condition' Revisited 7. Aristotelian Powers 8. Powers, Dispositions, Properties 9. Inessential Aristotle: Powers Without Essences 10. Causal Exclusion and Evolved Emergent Properties 11. Are There Natural Kinds in Psychology? Part III - Realism About Causality in Social Science 12. Sociology's Causal Confusion 13. The Mother of All Isms: Causal Mechanisms in Political Science 14. Marxisn Crisis Theory and Causality 15. On the Clear Comprehension of Political Economy: Social Kinds and the Significance of Section 2 of Marx's Capital
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01 Feb 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, Niebuhr and Morgenthau discuss the Puritan legacy in modern America and the politics of Patriotism as Dissent in the American Jeremiad.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Prologue: A Note on Jeremiads and Jeremiahs Introduction. Beyond Just War or Democratic Peace Part I. Intellectual Trajectories One Puritan Ambiguities: America as Destiny or Design? Two The Puritan Legacy in Modern America Part II. Strategic Developments Three Reinhold Niebuhr: A Realist Ethics Between Responsibility and Humility Four Morgenthau: The Realist Polity Between Purpose and Dissent Part III. Political Implications Five Beyond Just War: Realism, Republicanism and the Politics of Patriotism as Dissent Epilogue: What the Left Might Learn From the American Jeremiad
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: Theoretical concepts within Inductive Systematization as discussed by the authors have been used to describe the nature of social action in the context of scientific growth and the role of the theoretical concepts in the development of science.
Abstract: 1: Philosophy and Transcendental Thinking.- 2: The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image.- I Conceptualizing the World.- II The Stereoscopic View of the World.- 3: The Myth of the Given World, Knowledge, and Language.- I The Myth and its Constituents.- II What is Wrong with the Myth?.- 4: Scientific Realism - Science's Own Philosophy.- I Kant and Scientific Realism.- II General Arguments for Scientific Realism.- Appendix on Quantum Mechanics, Bell's Inequalities, and Scientific Realism.- 5: Methodological Arguments for Scientific Realism.- I The Theoretician's Dilemma and Scientific Realism.- II Theoretical Concepts within Inductive Systematization.- III Quantificational Depth and the Methodological Usefulness of Theoretical Concepts.- IV A Scientific Realist's View of the Role of Theoretical Concepts.- 6: Internal Realism.- I Metaphysical and Internal Realism.- II Causal Internal Realism.- III Picturing.- 7: Science as the Measure of What There is.- I On the Various Kinds of Scientific Realism.- II Ontology and the Scope of the scientia mensura-thesis.- 8: Social Action and Systems Theory.- I The Conceptual Nature of Social Action.- II We-intentions and Social Action.- III Joint Action and Systems Theory.- 9: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.- I Truth and Explanation in the Context of Scientific Growth.- II A Pragmatic Account of Scientific Explanation.- III What is Best Explanation?.- IV Inductive Logic, Epistemic Truth, and Best Explanation.- V Scientific Realism and the Growth of Science.- 10: Science, Prescience, and Pseudoscience.- I The Method of Science.- II Science and Prescience.- III Magic and Religion.- IV Pseudoscience.- Notes.- Name Index.
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TL;DR: Realism, as a foundational philosophy and as an applied approach to inquiry, is increasingly visible in social science as mentioned in this paper, and realism has been recognized as an important service to the field of social science.
Abstract: Realism, as a foundational philosophy and as an applied approach to inquiry, is increasingly visible in social science. Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley have provided an important service to the field of...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use historical material to show how some management writers have presented a historically false view of scientific realism, and develop a scientific realist model of truth, and use trust as a foundation, arguing for truth and realism in management research.
Abstract: Is truth a research goal and regulative ideal that is appropriate for management research? Is realism an appropriate philosophical foundation for management research? This article answers in the affirmative on both of these questions by (a) using historical method to develop the four fundamental tenets of scientific realism, (b) using the historical material to show how some management writers have presented a historically false view of scientific realism, (c) developing a scientific realist model of truth, and (d) using trust as a foundation, arguing for truth and realism in management research.
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