Is “social science” an oxymoron? Will that ever change? (Blog)
Is “social science” an oxymoron? Will that ever change? (Blog)
- April 5, 2013
- Jim Weatherall, logic & philosophy of science assistant professor, is featured in Scientific American and Medical Web Times April 4, 2013
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From Scientific American:
I’ve been mulling over the potential, and limits, of social science again lately.
One reason is that last month philosopher James Weatherall of the University of California
at Irvine visited my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, to talk about his new
book The Physics of Wall Street. Weatherall, who has a Ph.D. in physics as well as
in philosophy, argued that the methods of physics can help make economics more rigorous.
Then someone sent me an article in The Economist on how “data from social networks
are making social science more scientific.”
For the full story, please visit http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/04/04/is-social-sci....
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