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ISBN: 9780521447805 - The Philosophy of Social Science The Philosophy of Social Science
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 0521447801  ISBN13: 9780521447805
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Sep 1994
This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as... More

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ISBN: 9780631206644 - Invitation to Philosophy Invitation to Philosophy
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 0631206647  ISBN13: 9780631206644
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwell Publishers
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Aug 1997
In this revised and updated edition of a classic introductory text, Martin Hollis leads his readers through the age-old philosophical questions of free choice and human nature, appearance and reality, reason and experience, and to newer ones or... More

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ISBN: 9780198275893 - Explaining and Understanding International Relations Explaining and Understanding International Relations
Martin Hollis, Steve Smith

ISBN10: 0198275897  ISBN13: 9780198275893
Publisher: Oxford University Press Clarendon Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Jul 1991
A collaboration between a philosopher and an international relations scholar, this work examines the philosophical issues that underlie the theory of international relations. Part I focuses on the dominant theories of Idealism, Realism... More

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ISBN: 9780521270397 - The Cunning of Reason The Cunning of Reason
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 0521270391  ISBN13: 9780521270397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Feb 1988
This book is a philosophers' attempt to bring together ideas put forward by economist, sociologist and political theorists. The author begins by exploring the economist's assumption that action is rational if it helps to achieve the agent's goals... More

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ISBN: 9780521447799 - Reason in Action Reason in Action
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 0521447798  ISBN13: 9780521447799
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Dec 1995
Did Adam and Eve act rationally in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree? That can seem to depend solely on whether they had found the best means to their ends, in the spirit of 'economic' theories of rationality. Martin Hollis respects the... More

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ISBN: 9780521291811 - Models of Man Models of Man
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 052129181X  ISBN13: 9780521291811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Jun 1977
All social theorists and philosophers who seek to explain human action have a 'model of man', a metaphysical view of human nature. Some make man a plastic creature of nature and nurture, some present him as the autonomous creator of his social... More

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ISBN: 9780521033886 - Rational Economic Man Rational Economic Man
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 0521033888  ISBN13: 9780521033886
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 2007
Discusses the alliance between economics and philosophy. Economics is probably the most subtle, precise and powerful of the social sciences and its theories have deep philosophical import. Yet the dominant alliance between economics and philosophy... More

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ISBN: 9780521442633 - Reason in Action Reason in Action
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 052144263X  ISBN13: 9780521442633
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Dec 1995
Did Adam and Eve act rationally in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree? That can seem to depend solely on whether they had found the best means to their ends, in the spirit of the 'economic' theories of rationality. Martin Hollis respects the... More

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ISBN: 9780521586818 - Trust within Reason Trust within Reason
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 052158681X  ISBN13: 9780521586818
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Mar 1998
Does trust grow fragile when people are too rational or when they are not rational enough? Both thoughts are plausible. Which is right depends on how we define "reason." Martin Hollis' elegant and distinctive study argues for an interpretation of... More

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ISBN: 9780521583466 - Trust within Reason Trust within Reason
Martin Hollis

ISBN10: 0521583462  ISBN13: 9780521583466
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Mar 1998
Does trust grow fragile when people are too rational or when they are not rational enough? Both thoughts are plausible. Which is right depends on how we define "reason." Martin Hollis' elegant and distinctive study argues for an interpretation of... More