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Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology

By Rajeev Bhargava

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0198242794, 9780198242796
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9146043 bytes)
Series
Oxford Philosophical Monographs
Edition
1
Pages
288\279
Time added
2021-11-12 04:27:53

Description

Bhargava carefully disentangles the different forms of methodological individualism, and then identifies the key assumptions of its most plausible version that beliefs are attitudes individuated entirely in terms of what lies within the individual mind. He argues that once this assumption is challenged, it is possible to rehabilitate a non-individuated methodology that permits a contextual study of beliefs and desires and even a study of social context relatively independent of the beliefs and desires of individuals.

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