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Some issues in the philosophy of social science

This series of four lectures
(HT 2003, Tuesdays 10-11, Weeks 5 thru 8)
Department of Social Policy and Social Work
is intended for graduate students in Comparative Social Policy, but other students are welcome to attend.
The aim is both to provide some general conspectus of intellectual endeavour in this area, and to focus in on some central ‘live’ issues in contemporary debate.

Presently available (more to follow)

Lecture 1 - overheads
Lecture 2 - overheads

Programme

^^ Pending 1 — “Shall social science be science?”
^^ Pending 2 — “The interpenetration of value and fact”
^^ Pending 3 — Problems of the ethical researcher
^^ Pending 4 — “Explaining explanations, and other unresolved issues:
(The text files are in PDF format, and best printed tiled on a page)

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