More Social Philosophy Than Social Science

1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 247-247
Author(s):  
HARRY A. BURDICK
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Philosophy

scholarly journals From Social Sciences to Philosophy and Back Again

2018 ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
Aleksei Zygmont
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Over Time

The article is devoted to the problem of the demarcation of social sciences from social philosophy. The author proposes to model the relations between these two disciplines as a continuum instead of binary opposition - a continuum in which certain authors and concepts are located depending on the nature of their statements (descriptive or prescriptive/evaluative) and the amount of empirical data involved. To illustrate a number of this continuum’s positions and features, the concept of the sacred is brought: emerging in Modern history as a cultural idea, in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the works of French sociologists it becomes an empirical model that describes both the effect of social solidarity and the particular forms of religious existence. However, later, in the College of Sociology and in the works of such thinkers as G. Bataille, R. Caillois, etc., the concept acquires value meanings and becomes socio-philosophical. The absence of a clear boundary between the two statement formats, it makes possible both the “drifting” from one to another over time (M. Eliade) and the ambiguity of any critics of social science from social philosophy’s position and vice versa. At the same time, the historical “load” of the concept could be discarded in order to use it within the framework of “pure” social science or philosophy.

scholarly journals Social philosophy curriculum in social science and humanities structured doctoral programmes

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Wendy Bastalich
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Wide Range

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an experiment in a non-credit bearing series of social philosophy workshops offered to social science and humanities disciplines in an Australian university. Design/methodology/approach The paper outlines the design rationale and learning objectives for the workshop series. The data set includes qualitative student responses to 501 post-workshop questionnaires and 14 in-depth qualitative responses to a follow-up online questionnaire. Findings The data suggest that social philosophy methodology curriculum offered within a multi-discipline peer context can facilitate an appreciation among students of the centrality of theory and the value of diverse discipline approaches in research. The last part of the paper explores what underpins this – a kind of un-learning or uncertainty regarding the veracity of different philosophical approaches to research, tied to a de-centring of research subjectivity that allows for the co-existence of multiple voices. Language learning, the inclusion of post-modern perspectives and an unbiased presentation of a wide range of thinkers within a challenging intellectual context are central to this. Research limitations/implications The emerging trend towards university-wide doctoral training offers opportunities for useful innovations in research education. University-wide social philosophy curriculum can play a role in facilitating constructive negotiation of theoretical complexity both within and across social science and humanities disciplines. Originality/value The contemporary social science and humanities research context is a challenging space, characterised by intra-discipline methodological plurality, and the risk of marginalisation by more dominant instrumentalist, end-user and science-driven perspectives. The trend towards bringing different methodological perspectives together within inter-disciplinary research and team supervision of doctoral students can lead to conceptual misunderstanding and research delays. The capacity to negotiate and translate conceptual perspectives, often within complex research relationships, has then become an increasingly important academic skill. Within this context, university-wide doctoral training has emerged, but there has been little discussion of doctoral curricula beyond that devised for professional doctorates within the discipline in the non-US higher education literature. This paper contributes to emerging scholarship on research education by describing the sorts of relational, textual and conceptual processes that might be created in the multi-discipline social science and humanities context to produce an appreciation for the different philosophical foundations of research knowledge.

Social Science and Social Philosophy in the Universities

1937 ◽  
Vol a29 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris Ginsberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Philosophy

scholarly journals Spektorsky and the Fate of His History of Social Philosophy

Monitor ISH ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
Stane Granda
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
History Of Social Science ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Evgeny V. Spektorsky (1875–1951) based his monograph, a survey of the history of social science ideas, on his teaching experience at the universities of Warsaw, Kiev, Prague, Belgrade and Ljubljana. The manuscript, finished by mid-1931, was accepted for publication by the Slovenska Matica publishing house on the recommendation of Anton Lajovic, lawyer and composer. Entitled The History of Social Philosophy, it was translated into Slovenian by Josip Vidmar and published in two volumes in 1932 and 1933. The print run was high: 5,000 copies of Volume I and 4,500 copies of Volume II. Spektorsky argued for a genetic analysis of the history of social science thought, which he saw as a treasury of ideas influencing human life. He emphasised the impact of ideas because these had, in his view, left a deeper impact on the history of mankind than scientific studies or proofs of eternal truths. Although critical of Marxism, whose pretensions to a scientific world view he saw as a mere propaganda move, Spektorsky never accepted dogmatic views.

Agent_Zero Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
William James ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Theoretical Entity ◽  
Financial Panic

This book introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or “agent,” is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far-from-rational, individual behavior. When multiple agents of this new type move and interact spatially, they collectively generate an astonishing range of dynamics spanning the fields of social conflict, psychology, public health, law, network science, and economics. The book weaves a computational tapestry with threads from Plato, David Hume, Charles Darwin, Ivan Pavlov, Adam Smith, Leo Tolstoy, Karl Marx, William James, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, among others. This transformative synthesis of social philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and agent-based modeling will fascinate scholars and students of every stripe. Computer programs are provided in the book or available online. This book is a signal departure in what it includes (e.g., a new synthesis of neurally grounded internal modules), what it eschews (e.g., standard behavioral imitation), the phenomena it generates (from genocide to financial panic), and the modeling arsenal it offers the scientific community. For generative social science, this book presents a ground-breaking vision and the tools to realize it.

Social Science as Social Philosophy

1973 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Hennessey ◽  
Richard H. Feen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Philosophy
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