The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: Some Critical and Historical Perspectives

Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social sciences have interacted with the natural sciences. Usually, such interactions are considered to go only ‘one way': from the natural to the social sciences. But there are several important essays in this volume which show how developments in the social sciences have affected the natural sciences - even the ‘hard' science of physics. Other essays deal with various types of int...