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“Artificial Societies” and the Social Sciences

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Discusses the argument on the logic of social sciences. Logical views from Karl Popper in his speech in the German Sociological Association in 1961; Critical response from Theodor Adorno; Identification of the argument as a 'positivist dispute'; Popper's attack against the inductivist and naturalist concepts of science; Focus on descriptive statistics in the analysis of social forces.

Source: Artificial Life

DOI: 10.1162/106454602320991864

Author: J. Stephen Lansing

Institution: University of Arizona

Language: English

Topic: Logic and Philosophy of Science

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Award: Biocomplexity Research: Emergence of Cooperation from Human-Environmental Interactions