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Centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. This book maintains that the sociologist should treat all beliefs symmetrically and investigate and account for allegedly correct or scientific beliefs just as he would for incorrect or unscientific ones.

Discusses Francis Bacon's thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon's philosophy and was in turn influenced by it.

This volume discusses many aspects of ESP. The general theme is that the phenomena is very valid and can no longer be ignored.

This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology's self-understanding. The author proposes a schematic outline of the structure of inquiry, paying detailed attention to questions about the nature of theory, explanation and demonstration.

Distinguishes between two traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, stresses on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. This work traces the history of these traditions as they are manifested in such movements as positivism, Marxism and linguistic analysis.

The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by social scientists, and their facts, the material organized in an empirical analysis.