Publisher's Synopsis
The philosophy of science, deriving from the experience of classical physics and profoundly influential in the formation of the social sciences aspiring to be like physics, delineates "true" science and explains scientific progress. This volume offers a critique and a reconstruction of this philosophy in relation to social reality and the objectives of the social inquiry. It attempts to develop a different mode of perception, and from that changed perception derives different rules for the credibility or acceptability of statement, a different language of discourse, and a different structure of organization for the social and policy sciences.
