Overview

Social reality is a key problem in the philosophy of social science. This text outlines the major issues - historical and contemporary - raised by the social reality and social facts. To the philosopher, it shows how the well-worn topic of realism versus anti-realism assumes new and interestingly varied forms when social reality is substituted for physical reality. For the social scientist, the book offers conceptual clarification of key issues in recent social science which are really philosophical issues.

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.. . an impressively clear and wide-ranging discussion. --Margaret Gilbert, University of Connecticut, Storrs. <br>

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Finn Collin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. He holds doctorates in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Copenhagen. Dr Collin is the author of Theory and Understanding: A Critique of Interpretive Social Science (1985).

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