Are social groups real in any sense that is independent of the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of the individuals making up the group? Using methods of philosophy to examine such longstanding sociological questions, Margaret Gilbert gives a general characterization of the core phenomena at issue in the domain of human social life. After developing detailed analyses of a number o...(展开全部)

作者简介： 布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour），科学哲学家、科学社会学家。其著作包括《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》等，在科学的文化与社会研究领域、科学哲学领域，乃至对整个后现代主义思潮，都产生了广泛的影响。 史蒂夫·伍尔加（Steve Woolgar），英国社会学家，在科学研究、科学知识社会学（SSK）和科学技术研究（STS）领域具有重要影响，著有《知识与反身性》《工作中的机器》等。

作者简介： 布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour），科学哲学家、科学社会学家。其著作包括《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》等，在科学的文化与社会研究领域、科学哲学领域，乃至对整个后现代主义思潮，都产生了广泛的影响。 史蒂夫·伍尔加（Steve Woolgar），英国社会学家，在科学研究、科学知识社会学（SSK）和科学技术研究（STS）领域具有重要影响，著有《知识与反身性》《工作中的机器》等。

Where and when have investigators aspired to study human culture with more trustworthy or 'objective' methods borrowed from the natural sciences? This book revisits the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages. By returning to the primary documents used in canoni...(展开全部)

Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to give accounts of other facts or phenomena, and so they play a key role in many philosophers' views about the structure of the world. This volume explores neglected questions about the nature of brute facts and their explanatory role.

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discussions on social evolution, while drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, the philosophy of social sciences, and evolutionary biology. Clarify...(展开全部)

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discussions on social evolution, while drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, the philosophy of social sciences, and evolutionary biology. Clarify...(展开全部)

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discussions on social evolution, while drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, the philosophy of social sciences, and evolutionary biology. Clarify...(展开全部)