Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism

by Cynthia Lins Hamlin

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415523990
• ISBN13: 9780415523998
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"