POL 2104 Lecture Notes - Coherence Theory, Critical Rationalism, Karl Popper
27 Feb 2014
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Pol 2104 c - intro to comparative politics - emily regan wills - 03 jan. 13. Kkv, coming from the mainstream of quantitative ps, argued that all social science (ss) research can be scientific if it meets some specific guidelines: inference based on empirical data, publicness of methods, and estimates of certainty, among others. This is an attempt to unify the field of political science & make it subject to to 1 logic, which helps make ps a more internally consistent field. Published in interpretation and method, 2006: the methodology bible for people who identify themselves as interpretivists. Interpretivism: beyond the quant/qual division (& frequently beyond ps as well) She is not interested the method used (qualitative/quantitative). As a result, it"s quite difficult to describe meaning in numbers quantitatively. She lays out 3 categories of philosophical thought, and identifies with the last one while critiquing the first 2.
