03446oam 22006734a 450 991052485030332120210915045434.01-4214-3542-X(CKB)4100000010460910(OCoLC)1127293237(MdBmJHUP)muse78497(EXLCZ)99410000001046091020191112h20191980 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSociobiology and the Preemption of Social ScienceAlexander RosenbergJohns Hopkins University Press1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 227 pag)The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International LicenseOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.1-4214-3543-8 1-4214-3544-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index.Why have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predictive strength of the natural sciences? In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. Sociobiology, Rosenberg asserts, deals in those forces governing human behavior that traditional social science has unsuccessfully attempted to slip between: neurophysiology, on the one hand, and selective forces, on the other. Unlike previous works in the two fields it straddles, Rosenberg's book brings thinking about the nature of scientific theorizing to bear on the most traditional issues in the philosophy of social science. The author finds that the subjects of conventional social science do not reflect the operation of laws that social scientists are equipped to discover. The author argues that much of the debate surrounding sociobiology is irrelevant to the issue of its ultimate success. Although largely conceptual, the book is an unequivocal defense of this new theory in the explanation of human behavior.Philosophie socialeramSociologie et biologieramSociobiologieramSociale wetenschappengttSociobiologiegttSociobiologyfast(OCoLC)fst01123838Social sciencesPhilosophyfast(OCoLC)fst01122940Sciences socialesPhilosophieSociologieSocial sciencesPhilosophySociobiologyElectronic books. Philosophie sociale.Sociologie et biologie.Sociobiologie.Sociale wetenschappen.Sociobiologie.Sociobiology.Social sciencesPhilosophy.Sciences socialesPhilosophie.Sociologie.Social sciencesPhilosophy.Sociobiology.306/.4Rosenberg Alexander1946-45160Project MMdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524850303321Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science2676791UNINA