Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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Nursing education and nurses' articulation with the working market are guided on the premise that the quality of nursing service is related to training workers to be reflexive subjects. The main object of the study was to understand nursing…
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It is a touchstone of accepted economics that all explanations must run in terms of the actions and reactions of individuals. Behavior in judging economic research, in peer review of papers and research, and in promotions, includes the criterion…
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John Rawls (1921-2002) was one of the 20th century's most important philosophers and continues to be among the most widely discussed of contemporary thinkers. His work, particularly A Theory of Justice, is integral to discussions of social and…
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A central problem for all libertarian property theories is justifying individuals' right to economic rents that their property or services can command on the market. In "Anarchy, State and Utopia", Nozick argues that right can be derived from the…
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A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to many significant analytic philosophers and concepts of the last hundred years. Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant analytic philosophers of the last one…
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This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest…
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Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges…
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Among the many philosophers who hold that causal facts1 are to be explained in terms ofor more ambitiously, shown to reduce tofacts about what happens, together with facts about the fundamental laws that govern what happens, the clear favorite is an…
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The paper consists of an extended critique of kripke's discussion of 'rule-Following' and of the extensive secondary literature to which it has given rise. Among the issues discussed are the reality of meaning, The privacy of meaning, The…
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Same-sex sexual behavior has been extensively documented in non-human animals. Here we review the contexts in which it has been studied, focusing on case studies that have tested both adaptive and non-adaptive explanations for the persistence of…
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What is a causal nexus? How do we get to know one? In the last decades a proliferation of philosophical theories, mainly put forward as opposing each other and as possible alternatives, has been trying to answer such questions. In the last few years…
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Functionalism is a dominant but widely criticized perspective in social theory; this paper clarifies what functionalists claim, identifies what would count as evidence for those claims and evaluates some standard criticisms. Functionalism relies…
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Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But inPhilosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers…
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According to the deductive-Nomological-Probabilistic (d-N-P) account, Probabilistic explanation in the strict sense is the explanation of outcomes of irreducibly probabilistic phenomena and takes the form of a law-Based demonstration that the…
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In opposition to A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, and in debate with Spheres of Justice by Michael Walzer,1 Nozick argues in favor of a minimal state, "limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…
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Isaiah Berlins essay Two Concepts of Liberty is one of the most important pieces of post-war political philosophy. It was originally given as a lecture in Oxford in 1958 and has been much discussed since then. In this extract from the lecture Berlin…
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