Leaving the cave : evolutionary naturalism in social-scientific thought / Pat Duffy Hutcheon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutcheon, Pat Duffy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy--History.

Social sciences.

Naturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores reasons for the failures of practitioners of the social sciences in 20th-century America and traces the development of social and biological evolutionary theory, or evolutionary naturalism. Looks at the lives and writings of thinkers who have helped develop this philosophy, from the Hellenic Greeks, through the early pioneers of modern social-scientific thought, to the social theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries whose ideas are rooted in the Darwinian and Pavlovian revolutions. For those involved in the social sciences. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

One: Distant Echoes of a Road Not Taken: Undercurrents of Naturalism in the Classical World

Two: Erasmus: The Re-emergence of Naturalism

Three: Pioneers of Modern Social Science: Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume

Four: The Political and Educational Theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Five: Harriet Martineau and the Quiet Revolution

Six: The Dialectical Materialism of Karl Marx

Seven: Charles Darwin: The Reluctant Revolutionary

Eight: Herbert Spencer: Setting the Stage for a Unified Study of Humanity

Nine: What Price Immortality? The Faustian Tragedy of Sigmund Freud

Ten: Ivan Pavlov and the Third Copernican Revolution

Eleven: John Dewey and the Universality of Scientific Inquiry

Twelve: From Naturalism to Mysticism: Henri Bergson

Thirteen: The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl

Fourteen: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber: A Matter of Boundaries

Fifteen: The Process of Cultural Evolution: George Herbert Mead

Sixteen: George Santayana on a Unified Social Theory

Seventeen: Bertrand Russell and the Quest for Philosophical Certainty

Eighteen: The Evolutionary Social Theory of Julian Huxley

Nineteen: The Existential Political Theory of Hannah Arendt

Twenty: Eric Fromm and Humanistic Psychology

Twenty-One: The Genetic Developmentalism of Jean Piaget

Twenty-Two: Karl Popper and the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge

Twenty-Three: The Radical Behaviourism of B.F. Skinner

Twenty-Four: Modern Evolutionary Theory: Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould

Twenty-Five: Thomas Kuhn and the Crisis in Social Science

Twenty-Six: Toward a Unified Social Science

Appendix: Evolutionary Spiral

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-585-33341-6

0-88920-764-X

OCLC:

45844405