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The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: Some Critical and Historical Perspectives (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
R.S. Cohen
Hardcover. Springer 1993-11.
ISBN 9780792322238
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Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations
of the different ways in which the social sciences have interacted with the
natural sciences. Usually, such interactions are considered to go only `one
way': from the natural to the social sciences. But there are several important
essays in this volume which show how developments in the social sciences have
affected the natural sciences - even the `hard' science of physics. Other
essays deal with various types of interaction since the Scientific Revolution.
In his general introductory chapter, Cohen sets some general themes concerning
analogies and homologies and the use of metaphors, drawing specific examples
from the use of concepts of physics by marginalist economists and of
developments in the life sciences by organismic sociologists. The remaining
chapters, which explore the different ways in which the social sciences and the
natural sciences have actually interacted, are written by leaders in the field
of history of science, drawn from a wide range of countries and
disciplines. The book will be of great interest to all historians of science,
philosophers interested in questions of methodology, economists and
sociologists, and all social scientists concerned with the history of their
subject and its foundations.
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