TITLE:
Philosophy of Science and Political Inquiry— Notes on Dowding, Weber and Myrdal
AUTHORS:
Jan-Erik Lane
KEYWORDS:
Classical Issues in Philosophy, Fundamental Social and Political Science Problems, Dowding, Weber, Myrdal
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.8 No.3,
May
25,
2018
ABSTRACT: Professor Dowding has written an interesting and stimulating book on the relevance (R) of general philosophical insights for the conduct of political science enquiry. In this paper, I challenge his positive analysis due to the relevance (R) difficulty. The social sciences have to struggle with a set of philosophical questions, but they hardly belong to general ontological or epistemological theories.