Overview
- Discusses realism in various fields of social sciences
- Brings together contributions of both philosophers and social scientists
- Employs multidisciplinary approaches to realism for social sciences
Part of the book series: Translational Systems Sciences (TSS, volume 36)
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Readers would also find that there is great diversity in the way realism and reality are perceived and understood, depending on the objectives and circumstances of each field of social science. This suggests that rather than having a unified view (stance) of realism and reality, it may be more meaningful to value the differences, diversity, and range itself. Therefore, this book does not present a unified view of realism, reality, and actuality. Although the definitions of realism and reality may differ from chapter to chapter, this represents a corner of the current state of the social sciences.
This book is unique in that it examines how the issues of realism and reality are viewed, understood, and dealt with in the various fields of social science, instead of examining them by philosophers and philosophers of science. This would clarify how philosophical discussions have been translated into the various fields of social science.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Realism in Philosophy
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Reality and Realism for Various Fields of Social Sciences
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Masaaki Katsuragi is associate professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, teaching Economic Philosophy and Methodology, specifically following a realist tradition established in the last three decades in Cambridge UK. At first, he made research into Japanese service industries in the graduate school of economics at Kyoto University and obtained a grant as JSPS research fellow at Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER). The turning point came in 1999 when he attended the Cambridge Realist Workshop for the first time as a visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Later he became a graduate student at the Judge Business School, Cambridge. Since then, he is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group.
Yoshiyuki Takeuchi is an Associate Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at the Graduate School of Economics and the Center for Mathematical Modeling and Data Science, Osaka University. He was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Fukushima University from 1989 to 1992. His research interests focus on data science, including statistics. In addition, he has been working on the history of statistical thought, in particular the migration of mathematical statistics into Japan, and the anthropology of business administration. He is the author of “On a Statistical Method to Detect Discontinuity in the Distribution Function of Reported Earnings” (Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 64(1), 2004). He is co-editor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization (2016) and Translating and Incorporating American Management Thought into Japan (2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Realism for Social Sciences
Book Subtitle: A Translational Approach to Methodology
Editors: Ken Urai, Masaaki Katsuragi, Yoshiyuki Takeuchi
Series Title: Translational Systems Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4153-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4152-0Published: 14 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4155-1Due: 27 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4153-7Published: 13 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2197-8832
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 262
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology, general