Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism

by Cynthia Lins Hamlin

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This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it.
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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415523990

ISBN13:9780415523998

Release Date:January 2012

Publisher:Routledge

Length:168 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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