Contents

Part 1 An analysis of interactions between natural sciences and the social sciences: definitions and problems; types of interaction; analogy and homology; metaphor; roles of analogy; rational mechanics and marginalist economics; biological theory and social theory; incorrect science, imperfect replication, and the transformation of scientific ideas; inappropriate or useless analogies. Part 2 The scientific revolution and the social sciences: the "new science" and the sciences of society; the 17th-century goal of a social science in mathematical form (Grotius, Spinoza, Vauban); political arithmetic and political anatomy (Graunt and Petty); an independent "civil" science based on the new physiology (Harrington). Part 3 A conversation with Harvey Brooks on the social sciences, the natural sciences and public policy: a note on "social science" and on "natural science".

Specifications

Pm Supplier	Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
Pm Publisher	MIT Press
Pm Isbn 10	0262032236
Pm Isbn 13	9780262032230
Pm Publication Date	1994-12-31
Pm Width	157
Pm Height	236
Pm Author	Cohen, IB
Pm Longness	0

Author: Cohen, IB
Page Count: 228
Publication Date: 1994-12-31