Explaining the NormativeISBN: 978-0-7456-4255-0
Hardcover
240 pages
May 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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• This is a high-quality book in the philosophy of social
science.
• Turner tackles one of the central questions in the philosophy of social science - namely, the question of whether social relations are ‘normative' in character, in a way that implies that the study of social life must be fundamentally different from the study of the natural world.
• The author is well-known and highly regarded in the field.
• This will be read by academics and used on graduate courses and advanced undergraduate courses in the philosophy of social science.
• Turner tackles one of the central questions in the philosophy of social science - namely, the question of whether social relations are ‘normative' in character, in a way that implies that the study of social life must be fundamentally different from the study of the natural world.
• The author is well-known and highly regarded in the field.
• This will be read by academics and used on graduate courses and advanced undergraduate courses in the philosophy of social science.