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Social Functions in Philosophy
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Social Functions in Philosophy

Metaphysical, Normative, and Methodological Perspectives
E-bookEPUBE-book
Ranking172371inSozialwissenschaften
CHF69.65

Description

This volume explores metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives on social functions and functional explanations in the social sciences.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9780429787850
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
Publishing date09/03/2020
Edition20001 A. 1. Auflage
Pages262 pages
LanguageEnglish
File size2024 Kbytes
Illustrations2 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Article no.9021017
CatalogsVC
Data source no.3431262
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Author

Rebekka Hufendiek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Basel. Her research interests lie in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, particularly in empirical and ideological dimensions of research on cognitive and behavioral features. Her book Embodied Emotions: A Naturalist Approach to a Normative Phenomenon (Routledge 2015) provides a noncognitivist theory of emotions.

Daniel James' historical research concerns the intersection of Hegel's metaphysics with his political philosophy. With a view to contemporary debates in social philosophy, he is interested in the concept of social power and its fruitfulness for social-scientific inquiry, as well as in social dispositions and their connection to social-structural explanation,

Raphael van Riel holds a position as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he directs a research group which focuses on theories of explanation. In his book The Concept of Reduction (2014), he offers a novel explication of reduction claims in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science.