Historical explanation in the social sciences

Watkins, J. W. N. (1957). Historical explanation in the social sciences. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 8(30), 104-117.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1957

Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/viii.30.104matched

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Primes

• Reductionism
  • A practitioner who has internalized the determination-plus-sufficiency structure in one domain can pose the precise reductive question in another without re-deriving it.

    This sourceFormulates methodological individualism — the reduce-to-parts (rock-bottom) explanatory test applied to social phenomena — showing the same reductive question transferring from physics to the social sciences.

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