Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a real

Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic traditi

First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found