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)

In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed critical case studies of Lewisa s foundationalism; Davidsona s and Bonjoura s coherentism; Poppera s a epistemology without a knowing subjecta ; Quinea s naturalism; Goldmana s reliabil...(展开全部)

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)

Described by Hilary Putnam as "both a fine introduction and a significant contribution" to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as "at once comprehensive ... and judicious," Evidence and Inquiry is unique both in its scope and in its originality. C. I. Lewis's foundationalism, BonJour's and Davidson's coherentism, Popper's critical rationalism, Quine's naturalism, and Rorty's, ...(展开全部)

〔英〕罗杰·科特雷尔（Roger Cotterrell），法学与社会学硕士、法学博士，伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院法学理论荣誉教授，英国国家学术院院士、英国社会科学院院士，获得社会-法律研究协会授予的终身贡献奖，主要研究领域包括社会法律理论与法理学、比较法。 李俊，社会学博士，华东政法大学社会发展学院教授，主要研究领域：法律社会学、社会政策、社会研究方法。著有《社会结构变迁视野下的农村纠纷研究》（中国社会科学出版社2013年出版），《从生存到发展：转型时期农民工城市创业研究》（中国经济出版社2017年出版），在核心期刊发表论文40多篇，主持和参与多项国家与省部级社科基金项目。 张万洪，法学博士，武汉大学法学院教授，武汉大学人权研究院执行院长，武汉大学公益与发展法律研究中心主任，主要研究领域：法理学与人权法。

〔英〕罗杰·科特雷尔（Roger Cotterrell），法学与社会学硕士、法学博士，伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院法学理论荣誉教授，英国国家学术院院士、英国社会科学院院士，获得社会-法律研究协会授予的终身贡献奖，主要研究领域包括社会法律理论与法理学、比较法。 李俊，社会学博士，华东政法大学社会发展学院教授，主要研究领域：法律社会学、社会政策、社会研究方法。著有《社会结构变迁视野下的农村纠纷研究》（中国社会科学出版社2013年出版），《从生存到发展：转型时期农民工城市创业研究》（中国经济出版社2017年出版），在核心期刊发表论文40多篇，主持和参与多项国家与省部级社科基金项目。 张万洪，法学博士，武汉大学法学院教授，武汉大学人权研究院执行院长，武汉大学公益与发展法律研究中心主任，主要研究领域：法理学与人权法。

For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In "Redesigning Social Inquiry", he continues his campaign to revitalize the field, challenging major aspects of the conventional template for social science research while offering a clear alternative."Redesigning Social Inquiry" provides a substanti...(展开全部)

Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book of...(展开全部)

For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In "Redesigning Social Inquiry", he continues his campaign to revitalize the field, challenging major aspects of the conventional template for social science research while offering a clear alternative."Redesigning Social Inquiry" provides a substanti...(展开全部)

Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book of...(展开全部)