Action and interpretation : studies in the philosophy of the social sciences / edited by Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978. - xii, 178 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction (Page-ix), Theory and value in the Social Sciences (Page-1), Indeterminacy and Interpretation (Page-17), Rational Man Theory (Page-430), Maximising, Moralising and Dramatising (Page-65), The Meaning of Another Culture's Beliefs (Page-83), Realistic Realism and the Progress of Science (Page-107), On the Reality of the Past (Page-127), Practising history and Social Science on Realist Assumtions (Page-145).

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Science--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences.

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