Bücher von Igor Hanzel

The book reconstructs the methods of theory construction employed in the grounded type of sociological theory, the nature of concepts, categories, and properties taking center stage in this type of theory. These methods are approached from the point of view of modern logical and methodological treatment of deduction, induction, and abduction.

The book approaches the language experiments with great apes performed in the last 50 years from the point of view of logical semantics, speech act theory, and philosophy of the social sciences. The author shows that modern scientific research into great apes has shifted from natural science to social science.

Discusses methodological issues relating to the philosophy of science and the natural and social sciences. This title reconstructs the methods of measurement and scientific explanation, the relation of data, phenomena and mechanisms, the problem of theory-ladenness of explanation and the problem of historic explanation.

The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities.

The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities.