Metascience and Politics: An Inquiry Into the Conceptual Language of Political Science

ISBN-13: 9781138528024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 457 str.

A. James Gregor

Opis

A central problem in political inquiry is the conceptual and linguistic informality of political science

Spis treści

Preface to the Transaction Edition -- 1. Metapolitics -- 2. On Science and the Study of Politics -- 3. On the Meaning of “Meaning” and “Truth” -- 4. On Semantics and Syntactics -- 5. On Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemata, -- and Generalizing Knowledge -- 6. On Laws, Theories, and Models -- 7. On Explanation -- 8. On Understanding and Knowing -- 9. On Normative Discourse -- 10. On Noncognitive Discourse -- 11. Conclusion -- Glossary -- Postscript: The Flight from Science -- Index.

O autorze

A. James Gregoris professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley and an adjunct professor at Command and Staff College, U.S. Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia. He is the author of Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism. Interpretations of Fascism. Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time, and Marxism, China, arid Dei’eloprrtent, all published by Transaction.