John Levi Martin The Explanation of Social Action (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Further DetailsTitle: The Explanation of Social ActionCondition: NewSubtitle: With a new preface by the authorISBN-10: 0197601626EAN: 9780197601624ISBN: 9780197601624Publisher: Oxford University Press IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/30/2021Description: The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by attempts to explain human action in "causal" terms. Martin, instead of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment. He argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory. This paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development of computational social science.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 608gAuthor: John Levi MartinGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2021

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