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050		4	_aGN365.9 _b.R66 1980
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100	1		_aRosenberg, Alexander, _d1946-
245	1	0	_aSociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science _cAlexander Rosenberg.
300			_a1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 227 pages)
500			_aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
500			_aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aWhy have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predictive strength of the natural sciences? In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. Sociobiology, Rosenberg asserts, deals in those forces governing human behavior that traditional social science has unsuccessfully attempted to slip between: neurophysiology, on the one hand, and selective forces, on the other. Unlike previous works in the two fields it straddles, Rosenberg's book brings thinking about the nature of scientific theorizing to bear on the most traditional issues in the philosophy of social science. The author finds that the subjects of conventional social science do not reflect the operation of laws that social scientists are equipped to discover. The author argues that much of the debate surrounding sociobiology is irrelevant to the issue of its ultimate success. Although largely conceptual, the book is an unequivocal defense of this new theory in the explanation of human behavior.
588	0		_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPhilosophie sociale. _2ram
650		0	_aSociologie et biologie. _2ram
650		0	_aSociobiologie. _2ram
650	1	0	_aSociale wetenschappen. _2gtt
650	1	0	_aSociobiologie. _2gtt
650		0	_aSociobiology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01123838
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01122940
650		0	_aSciences sociales _xPhilosophie.
650		0	_aSociologie.
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aSociobiology.
655		0	_aElectronic books. _2lcgft
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _tSociobiology and the preemption of social science. _dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980 _w(DLC) 80008091 _w(OCoLC)6420770
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/70844/
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