Mix Up One
In the natural sciences the ability to ______ is the gold standard.
What is predict?
Experiments (of the two rival theory variety) are often called _________________
What are ‘crucial experiments?’
One explanation for why social science is harder than natural science is because human beings are more ___________
Complex
We often reliably make predictions about others behavior due to _______.
What is common sense, or folk psychology?"
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The object of study of the social sciences is _______
What is human beings
This physicist, mathematician, and philosopher of science argues that this is not possible to deduce any statement about what will be observed from a single hypothesis alone.
Who is Pierre Duhem?
Many behaviorists argue that the basic categories of social science are __________
What is wrong?
Human activity can be split into two categories. Behavior and ________
What is action?
In Latin it means other things being equal.
What is ceteris paribus?
This view suggests that the although the social sciences have not made as much progress as the natural sciences, some progress has been made suggests that methods of the natural sciences are appropriate for the social sciences
What is the compromise view?
These enable us to bend the future to our wishes by manipulating present conditions.
What are general regularities?
This historian of science undermined logical positivism by arguing that science does not progress the way the orthodox history of science portrays.
Who is Thomas Kuhn?
This sociologist used folk psychology to explain human behavior in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Who is Max Weber?
Scientifically explaining action basically entails drawing an explanation for action from [L], and a set of statements about a persons desires and __________
What are beliefs
A thing is _______ just in case it is observed before the year 2001 and is green, or it is only observed after 2001 and is blue.
What is grue?
Hume’s empiricism influenced a philosophical movement in the 20th century called.
What is logical positivism?
Unlike the natural sciences, which aim to understand causes and to predict and control, the social sciences aim to explain human behavior by making it __________
What is meaningful or intelligible?
What is a simple way to find out what people believe and desire?
What is ask them? Observe and Experiment are also acceptable
Max Weber argued that beliefs and desires are not just causes of actions, but are _______ for actions as well
What are reasons?
This is the view that science is fundamentally about thinking up hypotheses and deducing consequences from them, which can then be used to test the theory by experiment.
What is hypothetico-deductivism?
This American philosopher argues that ultimately we could chose to abandon logic, rather than reject a physical theory in the face of falsifying evidence.
Who is W.v.O. Quine?
____________ is the idea that, because everything in the world is made of the same basic stuff in complex combinations, the laws of biology ought to be derivable from those of chemistry, and the laws of chemistry from the laws of physics
What is reductionism?
The social sciences have not provided increasing amounts of knowledge about how to manipulate and control social processes in the same way that we have been able to control physical laws because they have not uncovered ___________ or __________.
What are laws and empirical generalizations?
We often explain human action by pinpointing the ______ and ________ that lead to them
What are beliefs and desires?