G. A. Cohen’s Functional Explanation: A Critical Realist Analysis  

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Agar, Joly

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 33 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 291-310.
Topik: functional explanation; empiricist philosophy; causation
Fulltext: 291PSS333.pdf (94.16KB)

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The author examines (and refutes) the functional explanation that G. A. Cohen employs in his book Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defense in light of its recent republication. In recent years, Roy Bhaskar has provided a convincingcritique of the empiricist philosophy of social science that Cohen employs, and this article tries to provide an assessment of his method from a Bhaskarian perspective. It begins with an exposition of functional explanation, followed by the Bhaskarian critique by demonstratingthat functionalism is unworkable because it is dependent on an empiricist account of causation.

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