Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences: Defending A Science Of Human Behavior

Westview Press (1996)
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Pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, Lee McIntyre, in this first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant.

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