Measuring the Intentional World : Realism, Naturalism, and Quantitative Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
by
J. D. Trout
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195107667
ISBN-13
9780195107661
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 9th, 1998
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
590 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.70 x 2.80 cms
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Introduces a different version of scientific realism - Measured Realism - that characterizes the kind of theoretical progress in the social and psychological sciences that is uneven but indisputable. This work proposes a theory of measurement - Population-Guided Estimation - that connects natural, psychological, and social scientific inquiry.
Scientific realism has been advanced as an interpretation of the natural sciences but never the behavioural sciences. This exciting book introduces a novel version of scientific realism--Measured Realism--that characterizes the kind of theoretical progress in the social and psychological sciences that is uneven but indisputable. Trout proposes a theory of measurement--Population-Guided Estimation--that connects natural, psychological, and social scientific inquiry. Presenting quantitative methods in the behavioural sciences as at once successful and regulated by the world, Measuring the Intentional World will engage philosophers of science, historians of science, sociologists of science, and scientists interested in the foundations of their own disciplines.
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