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SHAMANS OR SCIENTISTS? POSITIVIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SENSE-ABLE CONCEPTS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

SEET CHONG EN, BENJAMIN
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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.
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Philosophy of Social Science, Methodology, International Relations, Epistemology, Concepts, Operationalization
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2015-07-28
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