Had Lenin’s train collided with the Berlin-Basle express
Charles Maier, 13 February 1992
Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences
by Geoffrey Hawthorn.
Cambridge, 192 pp., £27.50, September 1991,0 521 40359 6 Show More
by Geoffrey Hawthorn.
Cambridge, 192 pp., £27.50, September 1991,
New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy
by James Bohman.
Polity, 273 pp., £35, October 1991,0 7456 0632 6 Show More
by James Bohman.
Polity, 273 pp., £35, October 1991,
“... and generalisation that pertain in the natural sciences. The endeavour to frame such laws – what James Bohman characterises as the ‘strong programme’ or ‘old logic of social sciences’ – has been under attack for decades. And Hawthorn is not just pressing the familiar, if not banal arguments for hermeneutics or restating Stanley Fish’s claim ... ”
