The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94) was a founding father of social science, believing that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the exact methods as the natural sciences. His two reputations (doomed Enlightenment scholar and founder of social choice) are reconciled here.
The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94) was a founding father of social science, believing that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the e...