PHIL 6422

PHIL 6422

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

Social science research almost always combines empirical observation (data), the construction of concepts (language), and the logical analysis of the relations between observations and concepts (statistics).  This course examines the relations between these three dimensions as the analyst moves from one to the other both as practice and in the crafting of a formal summary of findings and argument. We will be particularly interested in the foundational assumptions that underpin the connections between empirical reality, language, and statistical analysis. While these foundational assumptions are often taken for granted by social scientists, they vary dramatically between social science disciplines.  The implicit contradiction between that variance and their doxic acceptance within disciplines will be a primary focus of the course.

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 6910GOVT 6122

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15911 PHIL 6422   SEM 101