Explanation and Experience in Social Science

Taylor & Francis

Explanation and Experience in Social ScienceAuthor(s): Robert Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138523296, 978-1138523296\nSynopsis\nAccording to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves. Social scientists often discuss the nature of knowledge in their fields with a notable lack of clarity. Explanation and Experience in Social Science by Robert Brown dispels the confusion with cogency and wit; it is a systematic, sensible, and lucid analysis of the nature of the explanations put forward by social scientists.\n\nExplanation-making is first distinguished from \""describing\"" and \""reporting,\"" and then classified into different types, based on different kinds of information used. The greater part of the book consists in discussion and examination of these types of explanation and their relationships, in whic.