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(1979) Philosophy in geography, Dordrecht, Springer.
Social science and human action or on hitting your head against the ceiling of language
Gunnar Olsson
pp. 287-307
This piece begins as an academic paper about what the social sciences are and it ends as a manifesto of what they ought to be. The message is thoroughly ideological, for ideology is defined as that ethical glue whereby is and ought are forged together into a coherent whole. In the first part, I shall provide a succinct but novel summary of a long and complicated argument recently developed elsewhere.1 In the second, I shall explore some implications of those thoughts. In neither case shall I draw anything but a rough caricature. But that may be just as well, for it is usually easier to see the prominent features in a caricature than in a fascimile reproduction.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9394-5_13
Full citation:
Olsson, G. (1979)., Social science and human action or on hitting your head against the ceiling of language, in S. Gale & G. Olsson (eds.), Philosophy in geography, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 287-307.
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