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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 150)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Perspectives on the Relations between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
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Some Influences of the Natural Sciences on the Social Sciences
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Some Influences of the Social Sciences on the Natural Sciences
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
Book Subtitle: Some Critical and Historical Perspectives
Editors: I. Bernard Cohen
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3391-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2223-8Published: 30 November 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4258-3Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3391-5Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 404
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Methodology of the Social Sciences