Models of Man Paperback: Philosophical Thoughts on Social Action - Softcover

Hollis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052129181X ISBN 13: 9780521291811

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1977

Inhaltsangabe

Martin Hollis examines the contrasting models with which social theorists and philosophers seek to explain human action, and develops a model of his own, which connects personal and social identity through an ambitious theory of rational action and a priori knowledge.

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Críticas

'Why do human beings behave in detail exactly as they do and not in some other way? What, if anything, causes them so to act? How can we validly explain the fact that they do in practice act this way and not differently? ... It is the distinctive merit of Martin Hollis's exceedingly clever ... little book to ram home the priority of these vertiginous metaphysical questions to any intellectually coherent attempt to understand one another, individually or by the gross. Radical interpretation is simply the stuff of human life; and the social sciences are radical interpretation on stilts.' New Society

'His extremely clear, sharp, witty style ... makes the entire book very well worth reading. I find his central point entirely persuasive, and it may well be that his careful and courteous defence of it will be the best way to bring it home to those who still see witchcraft in any suggestion that the world must be explained in different ways for different purposes.' Philosophy

Biografía del autor

Martin Hollis (1938 98) was a philosopher of the social sciences and game theory and is best known for his rationalism. He was Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and eventually Pro-Vice-Chancellor until his death in 1998.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• ISBN 10: 052129181X
• ISBN 13: 9780521291811
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208