INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Instrumental And Value Rationality, Economic Liberalism

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Brown Myra Leann

Document Summary

; a paradigm is employed to arrive at a world view with implications for the future. Worldviews; not truth it does not explain everything. Maybe gp come out of human nature, it tells you to ignore your lens and pay attention to certain things. Some are very robust and try to predict the future based on the current ideas. The people"s republic of china- says they"re a communist country and they have free trade. If they aren"t consistent then they must be somewhat wrong. Theory- a body of internally consistent empirical generalizations of descriptive (what), explanatory (why), and predictive power; takes the form of hypotheses that are testable, falsifiable, and replicable (and j. david singer would say quantifiable). You have to be able to test and retest- some social scientists are even more strict and what all of this. International relations is a sub field that has changed over time during the cold war.