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| Title: | SHAMANS OR SCIENTISTS? POSITIVIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SENSE-ABLE CONCEPTS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | Authors: | SEET CHONG EN, BENJAMIN | Keywords: | Philosophy of Social Science, Methodology, International Relations, Epistemology, Concepts, Operationalization | Issue Date: | 28-Jul-2015 | Citation: | SEET CHONG EN, BENJAMIN (2015-07-28). SHAMANS OR SCIENTISTS? POSITIVIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SENSE-ABLE CONCEPTS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | I argue that Positivist International Relations is a pseudo-science. This is because it uses overly ambiguous concepts. I then propose a remedy for such ambiguity, a method of "Lego-languages" that we can use to construct unambiguous concepts. Specifically, I reconstruct the tenets of positivist social science from scratch and critique its use of indicators. | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/121967 |
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