PSCI 2701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Philosophy, Determinism, Normal Science
13 Oct 2018
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Psci 2701- philosophy of social science: knowledge and. Science is a systematic controlled empirical and critical investigation of hypothetical propositions about the presumed relations among various phenomena. Epistemology and ontology in political analysis and research. Study of epistemology how we learn about the world depends on what and how we believe the world is organized. Methodology the study of the direction and implications of empirical research of. 2 main traditional strategies in psci: positivism, interpretivist, scientific realism. Ontology the social world is objectively real and exists independent of our knowledge of it. Belief that knowledge of the world is made by making observations. Epistemology: scientific knowledge is limited to what can be observed, empirical regularities, general laws and causal relationships can be discovered and applied to predict social phenomena. We can make theories about how the world works based on our experience. Rd4 more liberal in their attitude.
