Weber's Thesis as an Historical Explanation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4495986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ehud Sprinzak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 294 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2504682 |
| OpenAlex | W2330032499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The social sciences seem increasingly doubtful that logical positivism can help them become history-free. This has contributed to rediscovery of the historical dimensions of social life,1 and perhaps explains why many methodologists and philosophers of science are hard pressed for a proper formulation of the logic of historical explanation.2 The difficulty with many formulations presented so far is that they are more logical than historical and may sometimes provide little help to a proper historical analysis. This happens not because of an inherent deficiency in the nature of philosophy or the philosophy of science, but because of the inherent gap that exists between the requirements of the logic of explanation and the capacity of the social sciences to follow these requirements without becoming either trivial or too general
Epistemology · History · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2024 (51) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |