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This accessible and user-friendly text will prove invaluable to any student coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of fundamental social and political questions in modern society, as well as clear, accessible discussions of the philosophical issues central to political thought. Topics covered include: the foundations of political authority, the nature and grounds of economic justice, the limits of tolerance, considerations of community, race, gender, and culture in questions of justice, and radical critiques of current political theories.
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This accessible and user-friendly text offers a broad survey of some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning social and political relations in modern society.
Customer Reviews:
Mis-titled.......2006-02-26
The "Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy" series has generally been quite good. I recommend their "Continental Philosophy" introduction by Cutrofello which is excellent.
However, this particular entry by Christman is not as strong, in my opinion, as some of the others. My real disappointment is that it is generally confined to Political Philosophy. There is very little here about Social Philosophy. I urge the reader to inspect the Table of Contents which is available.
If you are primarily interested in an introduction to the liberal paradigm in political philosophy and contemporary (though mostly analytical philosophers) discourse on that paradigm, I can recommend the book, perhaps 4 stars. But be aware that its focus is much more narrow than the title might indicate.
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Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction introduces all the main themes in the philosophy of science, including the nature of causation, explanation, laws, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism.
This substantially revised and updated second edition of a highly successful, accessible and user-friendly text will be of value to any student getting to grips with the nature, methods and justification of science. Alex Rosenberg includes new material on a number of subjects, including:
· The theory of natural selection
· Popper, Lakatos and Leibniz
· Feminist philosophy of science
· Logical positivism
· The origins of science
In addition, helpful features add greatly to the ease and clarity of this second edition:
· Overviews and chapter summaries
· Study questions and annotated further reading
· A helpful glossary explaining key words and concepts
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Decent introductory textbook for students.......2007-09-03
Rosenberg's introduction is well-structured and covers all the main points that would feature in an introductory philosophy of science course. It even goes beyond some of the more traditional topics, including chapters/sections on science studies and the semantic (model) view of scientific theories. However, while the book is better than some of its competitors (e.g., Ladyman's 'Understanding Philosophy of Science'), it still leaves a lot to be desired. The writing is at times awkward (commas are distributed more or less at random across the page), which makes for tedious reading. Also, the argument isn't always very clear and the author gets sidetracked quite often. Gross oversimplification may be inevitable in a textbook for students, but in this book it doesn't always make things any clearer. Given the success of the book, the author should take the time to make some serious revisions -- the second edition has not improved as much as it could have. A major positive point is the existence of a corresponding anthology (Balashov/Rosenberg) of classic texts from the philosophy of science.
Time arrival in good condition.......2005-09-02
The book arrived on time in good condtion. I appreciate the quality of the book and speedy delivery. Tnanks.
A review of the first six pages and the table of contents.......2005-03-30
I do not have this book. I wish I did. I read the first six pages of the book which explains how various scientific disciplines have in the course of History broken off from Science, and come to constitute fields of learning of their own, and understood that this is a very clearly written and informative book. I am sure that it will lay out clearly the major questions raised today in the Philosophy of Science. As I understand it one major idea of the work is that there are philosophical questions that Science cannot answer . Or to put this in another way that Philosophy in a sense sets the limits of scientific inquiry.
What strikes and troubles me in terms of the relationship of Philosophy and Science is that the latter produces in many cases testable conclusions, and thus has the authority of providing us ' truth'. And this when as far as I can tell or feel ' philosophical discourse ' is like discourse in the humanities, ' interpretative'. And it thus does not provide us with what is testable, objective, and ' communally held'. Of course I know that one of the questions of Philosophy of Science is whether there is such a 'thing' as ' objective truth'. But clearly in common sense terms, and in terms of the way most people think and act in the world of the mind ' scientific results' do have a quality in truth, that ' philosophical arguments ' do not.
I am curious as to how this volume deals with these questions.
I apologize for taking the reader's time. My sense is that this is a very good introduction to the whole subject.
Helpful text book.......2003-02-07
I used this book in an introduction to philosophy of science course I took, along with an anthology of papers. The papers were hard to understand without this book. They were filled with a lot of jargon, and labels for different theories. This book helped me understand the labels, but it also got behind them to what the real issues between competing philosophies of science are, and how their arguments worked. It was not easy going but the effort to follow Rosenberg's presentation was worth it.
Why philosphy matters to science.......2002-02-16
The great thing about this book, unlike most of the others, is that is shows how the problems of methodology and interpretation of scientific theories turn out to be the same deep problems philosophers have been wrestling with since the Greeks. It gives you all the definitions of the buzz-words in philosophy of science, but goes beyond them to tell you what's really up for grabs in debates about the nature of science, objectivity, explanation, and reality. And it ends with a great chapter on Kuhn and Quine.
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This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic republicanism, nationalism and cultural pluralism. The book now includes two new chapters on citizenship theory and multiculturalism, in addition to updated chapters on utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism, socialism, communitarianism, and feminism. The many thinkers discussed include G. A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, William Galston , Carol Gilligan, R. M. Hare, Catherine Mackinnon, David Miller, Philippe Van Parijs, Susan Okin, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, John Roemer, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer, and Iris Young. Extended guides to further reading have been added at the end of each chapter, listing the most important books and articles on each school of thought, as well as relevant journals and websites. Covering some of the most advanced contemporary thinking, Will Kymlicka writes in an engaging, accessible, and non-technical way to ensure the book is suitable for readers approaching these concepts for the first time. This second edition promises to build on the original edition's success as a key text in the teaching of modern political theory.
Customer Reviews:
Very good.......2007-01-02
I am a layperson in political philosophy. I found the book comprehensive and easy to understand. Actually, I had borrowed the book at first from a libray and then decided to purchase it, because I found it so good and helpful in my understanding of our political and social systems and the underlying philosophical thoughts.
The best overview but not only - contains also critical discussions and great arguments.......2006-05-16
This book contains the best overview of all the important themes, subjects and schools of contemporary normative political philosophy. The language is simple yet elegant and it might indeed be fun to read at some points.
The chapters it contains are as follows:
2. Utilitarianism - the best discussion of utilitarianism I have found. Beats all introductory ethics books by far (see my other reviews).
3. Liberal egalitarianism - Very good overview of Rawls's earlier theory (TJ). He doesn't commit the regular mistakes that introductory books make, but sees Rawls's arguments as they should be seen. Contains also a great overview of a much less-known theory of Dworkin (which was only available in articles before "Sovereign Virtue" 2000).
4. Libertarianism - Indepth overview of Nozick's theory + very good counterarguments. Sees Nozick as he should be seen with the concept of self-ownership at the center of the entitlement theory. Great discussion of the rebuttals to Chamberlain experiment. Nozick can be interpreted differently, but Kymlickas is also an adequate one. This chapter also includes an overview of contractarian mutual advantage theory put forward by David Gauthier. It concludes with a good discussion of libertarianism and freedom and how they do not really fit together.
5. Marxism - Indepth overview of contemporary analytical marxism in the context of politics. Discussion of the marxist rejection of justice, marxist arguments for abolishing private property, about exploitation and about alienation. Guys mentioned are Cohen, Elster, Roemer and others. You wont find this material elsewhere.
6. Communitarianism - The movement of the 80s. Great discussion of philosophical communitarianism's main ideas like: politics of the common good, social self, social thesis and etc. Sandel and Taylor are mostly mentioned, Walzer and MacIntyre less so.
7. Citizenship theory/ 8. Multiculturalism - an addition in the new, 2001 edition. Haven't read those parts yet, but since these are the areas that Kymlicka is the most known scholar in, you should know what to expect.
9. Feminism - A very interesting overview of the wide field of feminism in politics. Touches upon sexual equality and discrimination, the public and the private and the ethic of care (Gilligan and others).
You will also get a great bibliography and a lot of ideas for further reading. It is a must have for any aspiring student in political philosophy or ethics. Kymlicka himself seems to support a somewhat liberal position most, although he doesn't explicitly state it.
BUT
It is not only for students. If you read a lot of primary sources you can see that many quote this book. It isnt just a neutral introductory volume (there are no such things in phil anyway), but a book with many good arguments by Kymlicka not found elsewhere. Of course it also contains good overviews of arguments found in articles that are not usually available for or read by most people. So even a working scholar can benefit a lot from this book - but they probably know that already :)
P.S to the reviewer who had doubts about treating Nozick on the basis of equality. Nozicks theory is not about equality in the real world, but the justification of the theory is in some sense the equality of everyones self-ownership rights. This is the reason Kymlicka deals with Nozick in the way he does.
Does what it says on the tin.......2006-02-14
The essays in here cover the core themes of contemporary Western political thought - liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism, reconstructed Marxism, comunitarianism etc. Most of the bases are covered, and the prevailing arguments are treated with intelligence and insight. Kymlicka is obviously a socially orientated liberal, and supports arguments to this effect, but is always balanced and considerate in his approach of a wide variety of thinkers. This book is best used in conjunction with other texts and journal articles to gain more incisive insight.
I used it in my undergraduate political theory studies to good effect.
Ok.......2005-06-10
Will Kymlicka provides an overview of recent work in the field of political philosophy. The book provides useful discussions of many leading contemporary theorists such as Rawls, Nozick and Dworkin.
Despite its strengths I would not recommend the book as a staring point for someone new to the field of political philosophy. This area of study can be tedious at the best of times, and without sufficient theoretical grounding the reader may find much of Kymlicka's discussion arcane. It is also too narrow in scope to serve as a good entry point - largely limited to Western liberal thought.
Overall, an ok read. I would only recommend it, however, to someone with some background and keen interest in political philosophy. Unless you get a good deal like I did (3$ new at a book sale), I would borrow rather than buy this book.
No finer introduction yet written.......2004-11-20
Will Kymlicka (whose homepage seems to be http://post.queensu.ca/~kymlicka/biog.html) is a professor at Queens University in Canada, and has been called the most distinguished political philosopher of his generation.
This book is used as a college-level undergraduate text, and there is no other book that sets out the major positions and lines of argument as efficiently and as comprehensively. It's intelligently written, erudite, up-to-date, and includes copious guides to further reading.
The revised second edition (2002) discusses utilitarianism, liberal equality, libertarianism, Marxism, communitarianism, citizenship theory, multiculturalism, and feminism. All positions get a balanced, sympathetic hearing, but the broad leaning of the book is towards liberal egalitarianism -- or, at any rate, Kymlicka has the least to say in critique of it. The broad approach follows a suggestion of Ronald Dworkin's: instead of treating each philosophy as based on a fundamentally different value (libertarianism on freedom, multiculturalism on identity, and so forth), Kymlicka explores the idea that they're ALL interpretations of equality, and therefore comparable.
You might of course think this approach is wrong-headed, but it at least contributes to readability and makes for convenient structure. And readability is no small achievement, given the complexity of the subject area and the depth of detail that Kymlicka is prepared to venture into. You're delivered a huge amount of information -- for instance, around eight varieties of communitarianism are dealt with -- and you never get the feeling that things are watered down.
It's indicative of the clarity of the style that you can easily follow involved and subtly different arguments. The writing is even at times (gasp) entertaining.
And I thought it a mark of the care and sensitivity of the philosophy that though objections and questions arose to me, I continually found these already anticipated and soon addressed.
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Metaphysics introduces the main ideas of metaphysics in an accessible way. Avoiding the jargon, the book provides a thorough presentation of issues such as the problem of universals, the nature of modality, identity through time, the nature of time, and the realism/antirealism debate. Wherever possible, Michael J. Loux relates contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. This is the ideal text for students who have taken the introductory philosophy courses and are ready for the next level.
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Excellent But Not Elementary.......2006-08-28
General metaphysics is a difficult and central area of philosophy. While there is a lot of literature devoted to it, I do not think that there are very many introductory texts. Michael Loux's "Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction" fills a gap.
This book is devoted exclusively to general metaphysics; there is no discussion of the subjects of special metaphysics, such as the existence of God, the nature of mind, and free will. The subjects covered are the nature of universals, substance, propositions, modality, persistence through time, and the Realism/Anti-Realism debate.
Loux explains the different theories about these subjects and evaluates arguments for and against these theories. The focus is on the contemporary literature; however, some historical background is provided. While the coverage is comprehensive, depth is not sacrificed.
The chapters are well-organised, each beginning with a brief chapter overview and concluding with suggestions for further reading. Loux style is clear and friendly.
While introductory, this book is not elementary. It is intended for students who have already attended an introductory philosophy course. Those without any previous exposure to contemporary analytic philosophy may find it very difficult.
I recommend this book strongly for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy. Readers may also be interested in Loux's anthology, "Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings".
Murky, muddled and marginalized.......2005-12-14
Murky:
In his book, 1984, Orwell described a contrived language he called "newspeak", designed to render politically incorrect ideas inexpressible. But before Orwell there were Russell and Whitehead, who contrived a symbolic logic that distorts ideas they deemed philosophically incorrect by combining logical quantification with expression of existence. As Whitehead wrote in his "Foreword" to Quine's Ph.D. dissertation titled A System of Logic: logic shapes metaphysical thought.
Thus in his "On Universals" Quine argued that in the Russellian logic realism must be expressed by quantifying over predicates so they reference universals as "entities". And he co-authored with Goodman "Steps toward a Constructive Nominalism", a nominalist manifesto, in which all philosophers are classified as either nominalists or "platonists" depending on whether or not predicates are quantified so they reference entities. I believe that anyone who says that universals are "referenced" or who uses the phrase "abstract entities" fully deserves to be labeled a Platonist.
But Loux uses the rhetoric from the Russellian nominalist newspeak. In the "search inside this book" screens at this Amazon web site the reader will find him reporting (p. 20) that realists say universals are shared "entities" and are "referents" of predicates.
I ask Loux: What happened to signification? The symbolic logician Alonzo Church recognized sense (i.e. signification) as well as denotation (i.e. reference) in the functional (i.e. predicate) calculus. I ask Loux: What happened to supposition, which distinguishes reference from signification? In his book titled Meaning and Necessity Rudolf Carnap explicitly affirms that intensions (i.e. significations) may be said to be objective without invoking any hypostatization (i.e. reference), and are indifferent to either concrete or abstract objects. I ask Loux: Since the demise of logical positivism does the Russellian predicate calculus have any applications in philosophy or anywhere else? Is Loux trying to appear contemporary with the Russellian rhetoric? I see murky writing.
Muddled:
Loux is sympathetic to Aristotle and unsympathetic to Quine, the pragmatic realist, who rejects first philosophies with their prejudicial ontological criteria for scientific criticism, and who affirms ontological relativity in which ontological commitment is subordinated to empirical testing.
Ontological relativity started as an analogy: Quine relativized ontology as Einstein relativized time. Einstein posited relativistic time as real time instead of Newton's absolute time, and he rejected Lorentz's making relativistic time apparent time. Likewise Heisenberg invoked this Einstein precedent for his own realistic Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory's positing of duality and indeterminacy. Today physicists describe reality in terms of superposition, nonlocality and Calabi-Yau spaces in eleven dimensions. Quine generalized beyond physics to our global web of beliefs.
Realism is a natural, primordial, irrepressible prejudice motivated by disappointments in our beliefs including falsifications of our scientific theories. On the other hand ontology is anything but natural or primordial. It is an elaborately complex linguistic artifact that evolves and that has a cultural history. It is reality as cognitively captured by the artifactual semantics of language expressing our accepted general beliefs including our tested and currently nonfalsified scientific theories.
But in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic and in this book Loux rejects ontological relativity, and he calls philosophies using ontological relativity "anti-Realism". In fact ontological relativity and relativized semantics do not oppose realism, but rather they enable it in this age of scientific change. I do not find this book contemporary. Loux's "Realism - anti-Realism" locution is a false dichotomy. I see muddled thinking.
Marginalized:
While a student I found Notre Dame's philosophy faculty unsympathetic to contemporary pragmatism and its scientific realism. When I left their graduate school of philosophy I took with me the opinion that their academic culture is a marginalized backwater preferring to protect the past rather than forge the future with new thinking. I see in this book a textbook in Notre Dame metaphysics for Notre Dame philosophy students.
Readers who are cognizant of the influence of modern science on philosophy - notably how quantum theory occasioned the emergence and ascendancy of contemporary pragmatism - are likely to be more critical of this book than other reviewers at this Amazon site.
Thomas J. Hickey
What Loux does, he does well.......2005-06-15
"Metaphysics" has meant many things to many different people. Loux helpfully distinguishes in the introduction between general and special metaphysics. The former concerns being qua being, and the latter concerns disparate topics such as free will, cosmology, and God. Loux said he would only concern himself with general metaphysics. Specifically, he concerns himself with Anglophone general metaphysics from 1950 to 1990. Thus, the subtitle, "A Contemporary Introduction."
Loux treats universals (realism vs. nominalism), concrete particulars (substrata vs. bundles, persistence through time), propositions, and modality (necessity and possibility). He handles matters will a degree of explicitness, thoroughness, and evenhandedness. The text is challenging at points--I attribute this to the fact that metaphysics cannot be dumbed down.
All in all, quite thorough and an excellent introduction to contemporary general metaphysics.
A gateway to current metaphysics..........2004-11-21
Anyone interested in the issues that make up current debates in metaphysics should read this book. It opens up an entirely new vocabularly and conceptual scheme for those with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. Working through the chapters, arguments, and positions will greatly facilitate comprehension of more technical philosophical papers. At the same time the book presents the material in a technical fashion; it reads like real philosophy, as it should. Arguments receive in depth treatment and important sides to issues get presented fairly. For a beginner, this book will present many challenges. But overcoming these will reap great rewards. Probably the best thing to do after completing the book is to read it again. Of course this principle holds true for a lot of philosophy books, but since this one builds a foundation a second deep reading becomes almost essential.
Seven chapters cover some of the biggest issues in metaphysics. Each chapter builds on its predecessors, so the book doesn't hold up well to random browsing. It should be comprehended linearly. Starting off, the nearly ancient debate between nominalists and realists (with a small 'r') fills two chapters. Arguments for and against both positions take up most of the space (e.g., abstract entities, predication, Ockham's Razor, etc., along with a delineation of the various types of nominalism - austere, metalinguistic, trope theory). Chapter three discusses the arguments relating to the nature of concrete particulars, or the 'substratum' versus the 'bundle' theory. The nature of propositions gets a fair shake in chapter four; are they abstract necessarily existing entities or just talk about regular old concrete objects? Next, David Lewis' eyebrow-raising view of possible worlds and modality is coherently outlined in chapter five. Here the discussion get really juicy and complex. Modality is no picnic. Do possible worlds actually exist in the same manner of our own world or are possible worlds merely potential actual worlds that never obtained the level of an 'actual world'? Chapter six revisits the concrete particulars examined in chapter three, but now with the element of time included. Two views, endurantism and perdurantism, are juxtaposed along with two theories of time, presentism and eternalism. Finally, chapter seven gets to the bottom of many of the book's debates, which can be, cursorily, ground down to the question of human beings' connections between language and the world. Do languages actually refer to a mind-independent world or is the world we talk about inextricably linked to our sensory and conceptual processes? These questions explode in the debate between Realists (this time with a capital 'R') and anti-Realists. Anti-Realists challenge the 'traditional' notion of a direct connection between language and a mind-independent world. The idea of the 'inscrutablility of reference' (from W.V.O. Quine, though with a specific interpretation by the author and Hilary Putnam) provides meat for the anti-Realist's argument. This final chapter sees Realists and anti-Realists duking it out over these issues. The chapter, and the entire book, provide plenty of food for the brain to chew on.
Throughout the book, the author argues for an Aristotelian-flavored "being 'qua' being" approach to metaphysics. This is very apparent in the book's excellent introduction as well as in the final chapter (aptly titled "The challenge of anti-Realism"). Though he makes his preference explicit, the arguments against his position still get a very fair shake. The author's position in no way degrades the quality of for-and-against delineation of arguments. So, even if readers do not agree with the author's overall stance, they can still obtain much useful knowledge.
Though the book's subtitle reads "a contemporary introduction" it is not an easy read. Major universities have used it for courses (the University of Minnesota's Philosophy department used it in a 5-XXX level class). Still, the book is not inaccessible to any careful general reader. It just takes some work. And that work, especially to someone seeking an entryway into the foundations of current metaphysical debates, will pay off in droves.
Clearly and Precisely Written.......2004-11-08
Metaphysics is an extremely abstract topic in philosophy, yet one cannot fully do philosophy without a basic understanding of metaphysics. Loux's book is the introduction to metaphysics that anyone can pick up and begin to understand what the arguments are in metaphysics. After reading this introductory book, one should have the knowledge to begin to delve into other areas of philosophy - or to seek a deeper understanding of metaphysics in other areas. I can't think of a better beginning point for learning about the basic arguments and positions in metaphysics than this book. Though every introduction is limited by space and will cover different topics, Loux's book is one of the most comprehensive introductions to metaphysics that I've seen.
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Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg Â- a biologist and a philosopher, respectively Â- join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike.
Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the controversies about genocentrism and genetic determinism; and the debate about major transitions central to contemporary thinking about macroevolution; the authors lay out the broad terms in which we should assess the impact of biology on human capacities, social institutions and ethical values.
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In this completely revised and considerably expanded new edition, Steven Connor considers the recent work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the last decade, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies.
Customer Reviews:
He thinks he's it he does.......2001-01-26
Postmodern rubbish. Get a bloody postmodern job!
great!.......1999-06-14
As a student at Birkbeck College Steven Connor's will be my tutor this year - lucky or what!
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Theories of Democracy is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the main theories of democracy. Chapters are devoted to liberal democracy, classic pluralism, participatory democracy, catallaxy, democratic pragmatism, deliberative democracy and radical pluralism. Frank Cunningham assesses how these theories meet long-standing problems thought to beset democracy in practice: that democracy permits majorities to tyrannize minorities; that it is inefficient, unreliable and incoherent way of making collective decisions; that it invites conflict; and that it can be taken advantage of by demagogies or a mask systemic oppression. Cunningham also summarizes the views of famous forerunners of current democratic theory: Aristotle, de Tocqueville, Rousseau, Mill, Dewey and Schumpeter. A concluding chapter uses the example of globalization to show how the theories are concretely applied and notes their strengths and weaknesses in coping with globalization. The book also contains three helpful discussion sections that concentrate on the recurrent themes of the relation of liberal democracy to capitalism, the concept of democratic representation and the value of democracy.
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This book provides a critical analysis of classical and contemporary social theory from a class perspective. It is concise, lucid, and well written.
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This book provides an accessible and informed introduction to the development of new theoretical approaches to human geography. It sets out to explain the key features of these new approaches, and to trace their antecedents and implications. The authors also highlight points of comparison and contrast, inter-connection, and dissimilarity.
An introductory chapter describes and accounts for the theoretical diversity present within twentieth-century human geography, and particular attention is paid to the transition from environmental and regional approaches to the `spatial science' of the 1960s. Later chapters deal systematically with different post1960s approaches: Marxism, humanism, structuration, realism, and postmodernism. Each of these chapters deals with the chronological development of the appropriate literature, describes the key claims and arguments, and indicates the particular sorts of substantive concerns that these theoretical materials help to illuminate. The principal chapters of the book are framed by both a preface and an epilogue, which address questions about `relativism' in approaching human geography, while also stressing the need for continued commitment and critical sensitivity in geographical inquiry.
The book is written in an easily accessible style with generous expositions of key claims and arguments, and with thorough cross-referencing between chapters.
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Good at the time - still useful, but time for an update!.......2006-05-05
This volume was quite helpful when it came out 15 years ago, as a guide for a new graduate student in geography, and its current contents still have much merit especially for history of geog/philosophy of geog courses. And yet, for those familiar with the various 'schools of thought' in a theoretical sense, much has happened since 1991. It's time for an update fellow editors, to include the many internal and consulsive post-structural aspects not covered in the volume. If you have been in an undergraduate program that emphasized "how to" rather than "why" or "what is your philosophy of geography?" this is a great little volume to read over the summer BEFORE you begin graduate work.
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