Leaving the Cave : Evolutionary Naturalism in Social-Scientific Thought.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- One: Distant Echoes of a Road Not Taken: Undercurrents of Naturalism in the Classical World -- Two: Erasmus: The Re-emergence of Naturalism -- Three: Pioneers of Modern Social Science: Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume -- Four: The Political and Educational Theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Five: Harriet Martineau and the Quiet Revolution -- Six: The Dialectical Materialism of Karl Marx -- Seven: Charles Darwin: The Reluctant Revolutionary -- Eight: Herbert Spencer: Setting the Stage for a Unified Study of Humanity -- Nine: What Price Immortality? The Faustian Tragedy of Sigmund Freud -- Ten: Ivan Pavlov and the Third Copernican Revolution -- Eleven: John Dewey and the Universality of Scientific Inquiry -- Twelve: From Naturalism to Mysticism: Henri Bergson -- Thirteen: The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl -- Fourteen: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber: A Matter of Boundaries -- Fifteen: The Process of Cultural Evolution: George Herbert Mead -- Sixteen: George Santayana on a Unified Social Theory -- Seventeen: Bertrand Russell and the Quest for Philosophical Certainty -- Eighteen: The Evolutionary Social Theory of Julian Huxley -- Nineteen: The Existential Political Theory of Hannah Arendt -- Twenty: Eric Fromm and Humanistic Psychology -- Twenty-One: The Genetic Developmentalism of Jean Piaget -- Twenty-Two: Karl Popper and the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge -- Twenty-Three: The Radical Behaviourism of B.F. Skinner -- Twenty-Four: Modern Evolutionary Theory: Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould -- Twenty-Five: Thomas Kuhn and the Crisis in Social Science -- Twenty-Six: Toward a Unified Social Science -- Appendix: Evolutionary Spiral -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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