Integrating the Human Sciences by Rick Szostak PAPERBACK 9781032230177

Taylor & Francis

Integrating the Human SciencesEnhancing Progress and Coherence across the Social Sciences and Humanities\nAuthor(s): Rick Szostak\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032230177, 978-1032230177\nSynopsis\nWhat if we recognized that the human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? Can we imagine a human science that would seek to stitch its understandings of this system of phenomena into a coherent whole? If so, what would that look like? \n\nThis book argues that we are unlikely to develop one unified \""theory of everything.\"" Our collective understanding must then be a \""map\"" of the myriad relationships within this large but finite and manageable system, coupled with detailed understandings of each causal link and of important subsystems. The book outlines such a map and shows that the pursuit of coherence and a more successful human science enterprise require.